let me not

let me not

deign to assign

a fabric of time

upon your starry eyes,

so cold they shone

under the umbrella of shyness.

i did not know what to say,

had I

inadvertently

found and tripped upon my double?

dancing upon tiptoes

seeing you,

a camera watching me,

a Nabokovian moment

filled with particularities.

how divine thou art!

like a Greek Goddess,

you look after me,

send me suggestions, full of the potent magic

of charisma,

showing how much you care

while I freeze in the limbo

of egoism.

lovely-minded soul, minted with the virtue

of ages past,

dost thou know that wisdom can kill thine fortune?

if by fortune thou didst mean to politik,

give generously

and manage like a microbe

for the world is not as evil as thou thinkest.

And if thou lovest me,

do not wear it in your gestures and words

but in thine heart

and show me that love that thou cammandeth by giving

to those in need, those who are trying.

do not be so cruel

for cruelty often masketh

a hidden agenda,

give and take lightly....