...Without.....Any Salve Poem by James B. Earley

Screwed by circumstance
...Without....any salve
Life insists on desiring....
What it knows it can't have

Yet somewhere in the madness
Lessons....often teach
.....That some things in life
Should be beyond...reach

Doesn't mean two people
....Can't passionately....care
A situational complexity
...Long...decided elsewhere

The pathway forward
......Circuitous....at best
Figuring it all out....
'Tis the ultimate test

...The heart's....in denial
What the eyes can't conceal
...It's that truth of the matter
Once critically revealed....

Life...consists...of desiring
....What it knows it can't have
Thus screwed by circumstance
...Without......any salve