The Other

To have touched such lurid beauty

Embracing all that is love and peace

Toiling in the flame of her essence

I am tossed, perplexed in mystery

A puzzle impossible to place

The pieces of a great paradox

Fear becomes my necessity

One not of elegance or grace

Might there be a duplicate

For duplicitous sake alone

Aghast, I saw an apparition

Or might this truly be you

So I ask, will you take my love

Are you the harbinger, an omen

The lone thief of my heart’s beat

Weaver of a destitute misery

If truth exists in you,...