Masked Dichotomies
MASKED DICHOTOMIES
Masked Dichotomies
Must life's train be constrained, vain self contain,
May self-effacement ease heartache, disdain?
Must mirage rain slake lost-in-desert bane,
May dreams' ream verse bring love to life again?
Must stalking hawk-eyed hawkers grey prey, pain.
May heart's refrain touch who'd from touch refrain?
Can conversation compensate for wide
disparities between speech-reach inside
and barricades behind which hearts mask, hide,
where one greets and the other's grates abide
spite needs apparent, though those needs denied
are tantamount to self-rejection sighed.
Dichotomies between acts and attraction
can't heal heart's hurt, leave hope too little traction.
8 August 2008 revised 9 January 2009 and 26 April 2010
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Dichotomies
May life's train be constrained, vain self contain,
May self-effacement ease all heartache, pain,
May mirage rain slake lost-in-desert bane,
May dreams' ream verse bring love to life again,
May 'we may' for 'oui, mais' translate joy's reign?
May heart's refrain touch who'd from touch refrain?
Can conversation compensate for wide
disparities between speech-reach inside
and barricades behind which hearts mask, hide,
where one greets and the other's grates abide
spite needs apparent, though those needs denied
are tantamount to self-rejection sighed.
Dichotomies between acts and attraction
can't heal heart's hurt, leave hope too little traction
8 August 2008 revised 9 January 2009
poem by Jonathan Robin
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