Love And Err Poem by Joe Cabrera

Open you up
Read you over
Carry you with me
Everywhere I go

Take you to bed with me every night
Hold you in my hands
At the place where you are bound
Fill my head, spellbind my mind
I might wear out your spine sometimes
But I could never put you down

Disentangle my hands
Like threshing oars
Enmeshing more
With the roaring waves of a lunar storm ocean
Gravitational pull is warring
But the inner whispers of warning
Insist on restoring
This uniform motion

In between what you are
And what you are to me
Is a double standard that feels at one
In hard-won harmony

Found you hiding in a pile of choices
For so long I sought it
But never really bought it
Checked you out, for you were the choicest
Thought about it and became cocksure
Your image flattered the stock clerk
But conspiring eyes and the gyre of voices
Are naught
But clatter and clockwork

Broken pieces concealed
Reveal the stainless steel of mighty truth
Unbending
The sheen of the unsheathed sword
That cuts the rope of hope like a cord
Has divided the noose
In spite of youth
Under those coveted covers
So often I've peeked inside of you
Forever unending

The wisest of wise
Counsel never to judge upon looks
I must admit it's true
Society's beguiled us like crooks
They led me to believe that things like you
Only came to life inside of books