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REAListic optimIST wanting to envelop you in tender caresses
hoping to soothe the most painful distresses
lovingly smooth hair from dark seeping eyes
and kissing each tear her fragile heart cries.

willing to do so as lover or friend
knowing that saying so brings nigh the end
predictably causing defiant reaction
instinctual power needs causing distraction.

by saying i'd be there six months and a day
the closeness implied scared my saraH away.
she thought i was trying to usurp her power
but i'd never trample that delicate flower.

i'd give her her space, as much as she needs,
knowing while doing so lonliness breeds.
but i won't forget the girl drowning in passion
the reverend mother mary michael jackson.

summer, 2000
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