So Mind in came, and false presented Heart
I knew it not, from where It came, for Mind
Did creep in, ever quiet. Lowly I
Did not discern the threat it meant to Me
It well deceiv’d me so precisely that
Like cloth wrapp’d ’round my eyes discreet in Sleep
I fail’d to notice that awake, I was!
My Mind so lov’d to break in others’ minds
And have much cruel fun at their expense
But never to involve the modest Lust
A change sail’d idly into Mind one day
That when my Mind did realize it, it
Was too late, feeble Mind had since succumb’d
And Lust did take control of Me, my Soul

 —Daniel Jeremy Perz,
      NOVEMBER 3, 1999