Desire.
Unrelenting but held in
the divisions of life.
Silences.
The unsaid needs that
can’t be met.
Surface.
The day’s ritual talk
wired in the zone of comfort.
Hunger.
Yearnings manifestly deep but held captive.
For all this there still can’t be change,
for change is risk and change is fear,
and fear is the sinister glue
that binds beyond salvation.
3/11/2017