*The Great Oak
wake me up with your voice, shake me up
take me up like helium, take me up.
my conscience has since prayed for attitude
in groanings no graduation could exact in magnitude,
when seasons changed and jumbled haphazardly
and time went tic tac tic tac sluggardly.
thence i took the fall of a slipshod man
but there always as a comofort in the discomfiture,
a far-fetched, idiotic hope though i could barely stand:
there were adjustments that could be made to the picture.
yes! when you stood beside me breathing life words
and life came to me like stampeding buffalo herds.
warm me up please warm me up. 'tis cold
wrap me in your bosom, my address, 'tis where i live.
it is wrong to belive only men need be bold:
the cruel circumstnces are gemder-blind, no reprieve.
you have known that early and now you are an oak.
so i will not be bashful, wrapped around your loving cloak
For Kimberly Amanda Hannah Adams
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