on becoming better people,
but perhaps it's
our dimness—
our thick impenetrability—
which makes
the affirmative grip
of love
not just effective,
but possible
and necessary—
perhaps priceless amalgams
of loathing and lust,
like gold seams, lie
so deep at the center of us
that our humanity
would collapse if they
should ever be retrieved,
and the less we
understand about these
fables that inhabit us,
the more we are willing
and able to believe.