Muscle Poems

Despera needs wings

Cuz she leans on some things.

 

Tell her a Heaven exists

Though we’ve held our love back

To disguise.

Tell her rhetoric will teach us

That in the end

There may be no one there to meet us.

Tell her that none of us

Are more perfect than she is.

 

She’s learned her Scripture

From depending on lessons.

Some things work out

Some things stay hidden

We learn the most

From doing the forbidden.

 

We’ve held our love back in disguise

For flaming dark looks

And inward urgent eyes

Our Rhetoric may beseech her

But from the beginning

There was no one there

To teach her.

No one can say they could ever

Really reach her.

 

Despera needs wings

Because she leans on our things

Those flaming inward urgent looks

The stuff we hope to get from books

Because she was out

And doesn’t know a thing

Because she was out

Doing the forbidden,

Exposing rhetoric as

What will not be a given.