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tenderly ... as if robin's eggs I consider the brittle fragments of her heart, cupped in my tarnished Tin Man hands - not taking for granted the entrusting of their care I lay them out like priceless puzzle pieces upon a surface of loving intent - she is but finery, fragile, and I ... her fool. considerately ... as if leaves on water I recall the women and passions squandered, encounters and affairs and intimacies as spicy, splendid and varied as an artist's palette - some, immutable as acrylics, others fading like watercolors in the sun swept away by life's intrepid courses and floods ... love is but portion, fragile, and I ... its fool. delicately ... as if disarming a bomb a Muslim man cleans the lifeless body of his little boy killed by a roadside explosive device while riding his bicycle - a mine left behind by an enemy brigade, retreating his town as part of a truce, his Hindu brother's brigade - the brother he loves ... and despises ... washing his son with his tears, he thinks of naught but vengeance - peace is but sufferance, fragile, and I … its fool. exquisitely ... as if fine goose down I scrutinize the keynotes of my existence, turning them gently over with the voltaic breath of my thoughts - to the affectation that none afford me the broadsword of achievement that the faults far outnumber the fortunes - successes, far short the falls ... still, I've known the passions and shadows as deeply as any, formidable joys, exquisite agonies, and sublime oblivions ... life is but passage, fragile, and I … its fool. poignantly ... as if fine lacy crystals we gild the memories of lost loves and those passed consummate hurts and piercing heartaches, each and every one a precious memento of the depth of affections realized - scars and wounds the invaluable proofs of how profound our devotions, thus ... oh, how intensely we love! How dearly we grieve! And how acute our need for BOTH! Pain is but love, fragile, and we ... its fools - its sad, happy, precious fools. ~ 1st Place ~ in the "Fragile" Poetry Contest, John Hamilton, Judge & Sponsor.
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