This I wonder

Would love condone...

what men can not...

if careful...

and discreetly sought...

or gentleness castrated...

for it's tender...

and forgiving way...

would sweetness...

be condemned...

to die...

or traded for...

a dirty lie...

more easy to accept...

would love be stripped...

and ogled at...

for being innocent...

and rare...

by some damned judge...

upon a bench...

whose leach'rous eye...

were bent upon...

love's naked body there...

would heaven be...

as earth'd...

as all...

the master painter's saw...

conceiving...

that the god's themselves...

with man...

would play...

in nature...

this I wonder...

why...

if not...

then place...

these higher truth's...

of love...

on grand display...




Written by Bruce James Clyde 2015

Art: The Awakening of Adonis, by John William Waterhouse