Escaping Eros

You are to me a web of mystery

A complex tapestry of woven dreams

And though germane to what is truly thee

I am alas confused, lost in your reams.



Perplexity invades my cautious mind

I see words jumbled in a tangled maze

Obscure, familiar, derisive, and unkind

Yet in them I detect an honest phrase.




You say that I am lost to honesty

And am in fear that you may see my face

Elusive in all that pertains to me

Unknowing that elusiveness has it's place.



For If I were to bear to you my all

Remove the mask revealing scars of shame

Perhaps in love with you I may then fall

And I would once more know of Dante's flame

Brendan.








Poetry by Brendan Finbarr Tully
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Written on 2005-11-26 at 00:21

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