Puzzle


Questions come
And go unanswered
Leaving delictis’
Mind-a-gobble

No fancy came into view
No such magnetism even pushed through
(How true?)

What comes between
Do keep me enlightened
What shaped thine thoughts
That fashioned this jumble

A game…
Of trust,
Your diversion?

And the price
Is it worth it?
This mounting confusion.
(for whose benefit?)

Was it simply
needing me by you
or the contrary

…oh, please!
help me lay to rest this puzzle now
and give the hounding
its final vow

Criss Crossing
2010.05.17

PASSING TIME

by Maya Angelou

Your skin like
dawn

Mine like musk
One paints the
beginning

of a certain end.
The other,

the end of a sure beginning.