ACCOUNT OF MY DAYS
Sequence: 4
TO REASON
I love you because I am not like you
you have a purity and consistency I lack
I want to be changed by you
and to care for you
you are more fragile than I am
or perhaps not but still fragile as I am
I can offer you protection
you cannot give yourself
if I enter deeply enough
into your heart I know its warmth
and rhythm will melt and remake me
I want your thoughts to surround me
till I cannot escape them
can only act within their barriers
Reason I cannot explain my love for you
though I am scorned for it by all others
and sent away from their doors
because of the scandal of my adoration
I will throw myself at your feet
strip naked and shout that I will have nothing
that has not come from your hands
I will endure the hardship of wilderness
no better yet bewilderness
out there naked hurt
by cold or heat whipped by wind
and beaten by the cold rain
bitten by those creatures too small
to be defended against
I will cry Reason! my heart! Reason!
my heart! take me into you!