But to Be Free

Francesco Venier Creative Commons

I can tell you now love,
I am not perfect

In this cage of flesh, I am bound,
I am not whole

But you, love, you define me
You define us all

I don’t want to indulge
I don’t want to seek

Perhaps not even to yearn

I don’t want to want
But to be free

For you are that freedom,
The true infinite,
The real lover behind the veil

If I could want but a thing
It would to be free from fleeting desire

For as the ache in my heart doth know
You’re all I need,
Your fire

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~ And Poetry After Dark