Wearing my heart
Upon my sleeve
I venture forth
In search of love
"Will you take it?"
I ask, over and over,
But no one wants it,
They only want
The body
That comes with it,
And then,
For only a night
Or an afternoon.
Eventually I learn
To hide my heart
And feign disinterest,
To play the silly games
That men seem
To want to play,
When I prefer
An honest approach.
Maybe someday
I'll meet someone
Who is as tired
Of the games
As I am.
WHISPERS OF THE HEART is artist and author J. Allen Wilson's second book of poetry.It can be autographed and shipped within 48 hours of order. NO LONGER AVAILABLE.
Robin Ouzman Hislop's poetry is certainly in dialogue with some of the key architects of the 'poetics of indeterminacy' – both the Modernist strands represented by the likes of Beckett and Stein, and the postmodernist strands represented, initially,
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