Millard Lowe Poet Free verse

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SELF-TRIALED UNAWARENESS: GUILTY

(Apropos Of Self-Reparation)

 

It has been said that we must love others

As we love ourselves; loving each other

As does the Author of love in loving us all:-

 

(Thus, be food for thought if hungry)

 

Dwelling in the court of the inner-sanctum

Of contemplation, 

Sage mind of jurisprudence charged my poor soul  

With abject neglect;

Not of cherished others, but of myself: collectively,

Me and I:-

 

(Thus be the entanglement of love of mind and heart)

 

Am I forced to take the fifth, lest I self incriminate myself;

Subjecting the heart to become a pawn to the mind’s jury?

For so long—innocently—I’ve been guilty of backward-love;

Self-love collecting filthy invisible dust on shelves of my heart:-

 

(In self-trial: The mind, the jury; Awareness, the loving judge)

SELF TRIALED UNAWARENESS

It has been said that we must love others
As we love ourselves; loving each other
As does the Author of love in loving us all:-

(Thus be food for thought if hungry)

Dwelling in the court of the inner sanctum
Of contemplation, 
Sage mind of jurisprudence charged my poor soul  
With abject neglect;
Not of cherished others, but of myself: collectively,
Me and I:-

(Thus be the entanglement of love of mind and heart)

Am I forced to take the fifth, lest I self incriminate myself;
Subjecting the heart to become a pawn to the mind’s jury?
For so long—innocently—I’ve been guilty of backward love;
Self-love collecting filthy invisible dust on shelves of my heart:-

(In self-trial: The mind, the jury; Awareness, the loving judge)

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