Stanzas: Monthly Chapbooks March 2015: Identity | Page 7
Your Love
John Collins
When sometimes you lean over
put your hands on me, ask me to relax
breathe
or you say ‘it doesn’t matter’
you calm the storm while the fires remain unquenched
and in that you reveal yourself
now do you understand
how you show your love
overflowing in abundance
while pretending indifference
a common courtesy
and in the while saying ‘all is well’
protecting me, from what?
your fears?
while the fire remains unquenched
in you
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