Far too tame and shocking...

everything of value can be lost
but that, or seeing that come to pass
is not what gives us value
it's in the human feeling
the depth of vision and entreaty
the search for value
setting sail and mapping the white-crested
roiling of times and turnings

everything of value can be lost
but the losing is not the keystone
not the architecture or its purpose
it is just an undesired event
that follows the desired events
that demonstrated the value of the now no more

we can be brave and still fall feebly
we can be brazen and be smothered
we can be good and right and careful
and see all the petals of a rosy trance
fall away like so much fog and reticence
we can love fully and eternally
and be answered by inexplicable endings
far too tame and shocking to be written...

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from 'The Copper Ptarmigan: a novel in verse miniatures'
http://www.casavaria.com/lit/jr/ptarmigan