Give me each time
the Abandoned Heart
scarred from Abandonments
which
reveal
its
own Consignments
amid the Tendernesses
it never
knew existed;
its introduction
it
so long
sought to believe
was safely
encased
in Sophisticatednesses
yet in reality not revealed;
youth's self-disillusionment
and I
Witness
make things worse
by intoning
remembrances
of Humility's Lesson
stronger still
when
where we are all
eventually
revealed
to
ourselves
cringing;
when Past, Present and Now
are united
inside Nuance
in which state
you are at once
nothing more
or less
than your Total
Experiences;
not Cranial Thoughts
Plans, Schemes, Designs
or Feelings
or
Self.
Give me each time
the Hearts' Abandon
its fulsome reach
its expanded Soul
True failed love allows.
Give me
That Hearts' Abandon
for each
knows True Love
caution
forestalled
allows True Love to grow
better to possess
that Abandon
than
cloister Heart Unused
because
Abandonment of the Soul
is the worse use
Unused Love
allows.
Retired! New start! Murder!
Todd, detective lieutenant, has retired from St. Louis, Missouri and has moved to Ford Valley, Arizona. When Todd’s ex-wife is killed in a car accident, Todd fights for custody of his teenage daughter. She has bee