This says it better than I ever could
Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2006 3:46 am
Poems from Someone You Know
Poems from someone you know
are a responsibility
like confidences told over kitchen tables
on rainy afternoons
An offering with hands cupped
around a fragile beauty
letting you in for a look
Received and accepted, but held carefully
lest the vulnerabilities are touched too harshly
and like fragile crystal
are shattered into pieces
Dorothy B. Marshall
Copyright ©2004 Dorothy Marshall
Poems from someone you know
are a responsibility
like confidences told over kitchen tables
on rainy afternoons
An offering with hands cupped
around a fragile beauty
letting you in for a look
Received and accepted, but held carefully
lest the vulnerabilities are touched too harshly
and like fragile crystal
are shattered into pieces
Dorothy B. Marshall
Copyright ©2004 Dorothy Marshall