Intimacy can be difficult
for the beginner.
I try but must sincerely ask
if I know the way.
I’d like to think it is easy, that it is human,
understandable even to the muted,
deaf, and dumb,
but I am sure that it is not so.
I am powerless,
but not helpless-
I will understand soon enough,
but perhaps not as soon as I would like.
After all, it’s been eleven years
absent from trying;
lost in a myriad of puzzles, each one more difficult than the one before.
Read but do not grasp the words that I write
for it is not your experience.
take my hand though
and walk me through.
for the beginner.
I try but must sincerely ask
if I know the way.
I’d like to think it is easy, that it is human,
understandable even to the muted,
deaf, and dumb,
but I am sure that it is not so.
I am powerless,
but not helpless-
I will understand soon enough,
but perhaps not as soon as I would like.
After all, it’s been eleven years
absent from trying;
lost in a myriad of puzzles, each one more difficult than the one before.
Read but do not grasp the words that I write
for it is not your experience.
take my hand though
and walk me through.
-
MR,
6/8/10
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