[A beautiful lyric poem from L.E. Leone—enjoy!]
GESTURE
You can love the world
so, so much yet know that
no matter how ultimately it embraces
you, it won’t, can’t return
your box of chocolates
So you hope to find
instead a person
maybe loves the world
as much as you do
or more even, and
you can play together
in a darkened room
while outside, without knocking
the earth sends flowers
L.E. Leone
© 2010