Letters, Quoting Kafka, Intercourse Ghosts Poem by Kenna

Letters, quoting Kafka, intercourse ghosts
(wisps of vague physicalities observed)
as one finds what in one to love the most
removing shadows from the soul's reserved.

To denude, he says, and tempt the forces
that prey upon the vulnerable soul,
and seek destruction of its set courses,
these letters writ turn half those once a whole.

He warns: 'soul disintegration follows'.
But, for those of courage that weigh the world
by aught of splendor – not cloaked by shadow –
the pain, from cave, will birth, to rolling wold.

And stripped here bare: the sun rays bathing bless
The humbled ones who, proud once, dared the quest.