on becoming
better people,
but perhaps it's
our dimness—
our thick impenetrability—
which makes
the affirmative grip
of love
not just effective,
but possible
and necessary—
perhaps
priceless amalgams
of loathing and lust,
like seams
of gold, lie so
deep at the center of us
that our humanity
would collapse if they
should ever be retrieved;
the less we understand
about these
fables that inhabit us,
the more
we are willing
and able to believe.
