FAIR TRADE

 

            woman -

            intoxicating

            resplendent enigma

            you yearn to possess her

            in every sense of the word

           

            mistake my friend

           

            you can no more do this

            than bottle the wind

            though filling your sails for a time

            - if she fancies

 

            if so -

            she’ll move you at dizzying speed

            far from where you started

            and may all the constellations

            illuminating your nights together     

            keep you from trying to steer her -

            see how quickly fair Trade

            turns to hurricane

 

            you’ll pray she never changes

            the journey never ends

            though it will

            always does

            unless

            unless presenting her

            with an even greater enigma



© 2000  Chris Sorrenti

painting by Pablo Picasso