we prepare our halos
and try on our
"nice to see you" smiles.
but nothing ever delves deeper
than our longing iris eyes...

we cannot utter words
that speak of reality so grand.
we were always taught
to keep yearnings
bottled up in our fantasyland.

even for us poets,
words are never
deep enough...

01/17/2002

Posted on 01/17/2002
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