The logical mess of love comes always
with consequences…like driving too fast
through a school zone…or a drunk priest who prays
to the devil…egoist’s death mask cast
just before his heart fails…sometimes maybe
the opposite…vulnerable first kiss
leading to lasting care…a simple kind
word preventing a suicide…our bliss
won through honest searching…fear makes us blind
till we’re touched by an angel…our life could be
a molecule for all we know…able
to dissolve or divide without consent…
Once as a boy I bit a bush’s leaf…my
tongue went numb…I never found out why…
Roger Armbrust
September 10, 2020
