SECOND CHANCE
In my dream I return
to the place I went
wrong, and given this
chance to change
things, I go on
down the way I went
before. Even in sleep
I know there is only one go—
and it went well
the first time. Where
it didn't— well, it will
be good to see her again.
— Louis McKee
from Near Occasions of Sin. © Cynic Press
When passion is not fed,
it changes to need.
At this juncture,
marriage becomes a fixed idea
in the mind of the bourgeois,
being the only means
whereby he can win a woman
and appropriate her to his uses.
~ Honore de Balzac
Love/Life Poems
