By Ali
Date: 2003 Jan 07
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A Frail Education

Your education twists me,
And I cannot see
This sound, but I imagine
It looking pale, in the Distance
Of your Eyes.  
The words do not exist,
And yet I seek them, longing
For the right feel, the right
Pause, the right breathe
Between.  But fools do not
Learn so quickly as theives.
I cannot make this frailty
Vanish--such mists
Do not merely disappear,
On an urgent whim.
What would you have me do?
I can only speak what I know,
In the language that holds
Me best.  Acquainted, as I am,
With the heart just out of reach--
I speak in perfect emotions,
But sometimes the meaning
Just get lost, in the translation.