
tea stains. Does he think I’d risk/
my Packer jersey?
The hair will grow back./
The eyeglasses won’t. In life,/
we have to take risks.
Or
The eyeglasses won’t. The risks/
We take can vary.
Some pain can happen./
But the risks we take by not/
playing are much worse.
Could she,
with walls built high
and deep
open a small door
to her keep
and let me
in?
What does she fear?
What holds her back?
That I’ll get too near?
Place her heart under attack?
Perhaps, but she should know this:
All pain
is worth that gain.
and that risk.
She sometimes feels
I exist to romance her.
But what if I’m what’s real,
and simply God’s answer?
Shrink, scared, in your life./
Create, thus, your biggest risk:/
You will do nothing.