If passions could cancel worry If passions could cancel worry, I promise i'd demand it. Unable to muster such a balance, unable to reorder the world, the best i can do -- conceal all doubt, all sadness, all of this bitter concern -- And plead love, sing gratitude, Open my arms in this long delayed Welcome. But the cost comes despite, And i am left one step outside your embrace, playing the watchman to our reunion guarding our remounting gates from a vantage characterized by steady confusion and thickness of guilt, for not loving you better, not loving you well Enough.

If passions could cancel worry © 2000 by J. Carrington Scott
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