Tenderest Thing

Second Of Five Linked Attempts

Self-adoration, self-abandonment,
paradox of their equivalency,
because no supplies from outside let in,
no sudden splendor of smiles allowed out

this apartment of the interior,
a doom with a view, eye wild in night flight,
moonbeams slipping from greedy fingers' grasp,
dark as stage for the starkest reflection

retreat from life as self-aggrandizement…