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As Well As Rage We Should Mistrust Love Too

Did anyone believe that rage expressed Could benefit the agent without harm Did anyone read Freud and then digest? Feelings need the heat of blacksmith’s fires Held inside until they find their form An image worthy of our true desire As well as rage, we should mistrust love too Be backward in expression till more’s known Or risk an avalanche of cruelty. Take care of others, they are not our fools From sacred conjunction all humans are grown We misuse folk to test our charm and tools Holding in the inner fires our wish The blackness of the heart can turn to gold No contradiction hides in sacredness Take your love and in your arms enfold. The future of the world is growing cold We liked to have the choice for rage and death Until we found the charred remains of blis

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