Impotence To Love Poem by Elizabeth Padillo Olesen

Impotence To Love



Hands are closed
from giving and sharing
Eyes are blind
to see the other side.
Ears are deaf
to others' pleas and cries.
Feet refuse to walk
another sacrificial mile
Such is the human heart
made impotent to love.

Elizabeth Padillo Olesen
Saturday, January 19, 2013
Topic(s) of this poem: giving,sharing
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