I am, You are

You care not if
I am totally yours,
or totally not yours?

That is your love?

Be careful
that you not spoil me

For you see
I am experiencing
some things here
for the very first time

Maybe you have it mastered,
is it in your suffering?

In askance
of all who respond
to you,

Now must respond to us.

Responding as if
for the first time again,

With this
unnerving desire
to express it
... is a fester.


Patrick Darnell (Aug 23, 1993)