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(To Henrik Ibsen, June 23, 2025)

 

The Master Builder

I don’t believe ideal love is real…
Can castles in the sky be built to last
eternities? Or rather burn, as fast
as marriage papers (and melt the holy seal)? 

Besides, I hate to think I’m meant to steal
the blueprint to a fortress from my past
to use to plan my future, to forecast
the whim of winds who caren’t for mortal zeal? 

Does there exist a Master Builder clever
enough to build a home that neither rots
nor suffers,—which fever may never sever? 
Apart from high upon the playwright’s stages,
or daftly dancing in a daisy’s thoughts, 
soulmates live alone on a poet’s pages
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