Therapy
What herbal dram can doctors give for love?
L’amour refuses treatment, runs its course.
If you trip this marathon runner, shove,
Impose a faltering stumble, she will force
Her staggering legs to jolt along. If you
Slash love’s wrists and stab her in the thigh, twice,
She’ll grab the tourniquet of hope and chew
A stick, hard. If you shoot the boy with lice
And wound his rhyming arm, he’ll still be with
You even in the cell when you’re alone.
It won’t be a delusion. It’s no myth
That love can penetrate steel bars and stone.
..He’ll die of cancer of the bone, but feel
….Your presence to the end. Love does not heal.