By Briana Kassia
Date: 2008 Jun 05
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Don't You Dare

It's so much work to accept love and loving
and being loved
however unworthy you feel

to hold onto
or to find again
the exuberance and the passion
the gnosis that what we have is real
is unending
is love
is

I'm not in love with anyone else
I'm not in love with love itself
I'm in love with you

so stop
sacrificing yourself on Eros' altar
for the sake of the dramatic
put away the self-poison
put away the dagger's point of your disgust
put away all that anyone else will judge

you need to live with love
Romeo, you fool
that's much harder
to do.