Modest and Reasonable

          Go to the limits of your longing
Rainer Maria Rilke

 

Modest and reasonable,
I didn’t “do” longing.

Simple wants,
circumspect wishes,
an odd desire here or there:
no need for excessive disappointment.

It was all a sham, phony, a facade.

One day when I wasn’t there,
You came and softened me up.

Now I am awash in longing.

 

© Jan Elvee