Invade me, reason

Escape me, you shamed intruder

You cruel enemy

impelling me with an unknown disturbance

a criminal instability.

With the nearing wars between dark and day

the fines that weave, unbind, and weave again.

Your allure is exhausting, a task to bar

Intolerable it is, but the choices are vague.

What else to do

But to yield, to resign.

December 2000