hard forms

I do not know you
a faithful smile disturbs me
to be made to love
that is no sacrificial alms
I am not your Isaac
nor you my Abe
haunt of my heart
low tones and minors rattling
kind snake at my wrapped heel
what are these?
dragged to heaven in a whimper
a forest—a forest I seek!
then I play your sad voice in my head
explaining your recent loss
inexplicable but by cruelty
and I am trapped again
by soft pity
by love in quotations