Aloof Poem by Jonathan ROBIN

ALOOF

Aloof none should remain where two may share.
Why flee far from fair feelings' fountain which
when spent sans counting only make more rich -
are deep summations difficult to bear?

Let go!glow!flow!emotions everywhere
replace drear distance with warm future close
where depth, unspoken, may rephrase verbose
superficiality too bare.

Open wide, within spin out aware
not as a line to hook a fish or two,
shrug off old shackles, tackle something new -
that tenderness two miss when one's not there.

Offer yourself the luxury of care,
not as a duty, but beyond that swim
through seas of sentiments you used to skim
in search of self who self denied... prepare.

Fulfilment signing tenderness so rare,
that few accept it, fewer recognize
empathy which never needs disguise. -
Are these emotions difficult to bear?

12 December 2001 revised 23 November 2020