Classic Poem

Did I do it
step over the line?
yes
do my lovers know
how I prayed God
I would
stretching
beyond sky
to shatter wall
after wall
in my way?

Scrapping limits
I crossed to a world
where lovers never sleep
they are so far gone
into each other
leaping fences
I abandoned my sleepy fountain
where I loved and drowsed
completely
quiet and content.
I found fire's seed and entered
watching the innocence in my dreams
die
hypocritic standing guard
eager to become my tyrant

High noon sun blaze
I pass the impassable
desire ending my journey
deserting the twilit world herded
gulled by the shadows
even moss casts
on the walls that hem me in

Spotlight I can't get out of
I won't strip for you
reveal myself
I love dark corners
with their wrap-around night
I love staying home nights
with one I love
to be strange
the stranger at the crowd's heart

No Salma there's no turning back
harden now your tired heart
and push on
you completely the creature
of the noon-day sun

Where you were before is a chasm now
column of salt, body nailed to the gibbet
going bare discloses
loving heart's courage

Eyes ahead go on the way you came
humble road's steepest
walk up the stairs of hell

When you're there
at your feet a spring
gushes free of the rock