Thus Less of This

less remaining time

less healthy skin

more words whispered

less words written

less biting your tongue

more getting bitten

more “sins” lived

less the sin of not living

Being

your sexually feminine

your crazy adventurous

your madly rebellious

but elegantly refined

being

dissolves all intent to

distill these words

in an aesthetic formation

for what I see will never

and can never

be portrayed in words

no matter how brilliantly put

Robert Bly’s structuring of poems

must fail to deliver

the beautiful potency

in the structure of your

being.

-Bass M. A.