We Divine Fools

Must we go through this again?

How do you not tire of this cycle,

Of trying to love all the wonders of the earth?

Your fascination for their simplicity

Will surely end in your fall from grace.

Yet - I cannot fathom why -

You desire them still, and revel in their affection.

You let forest men, tattooed with their tales,

Dazzle you with the careless charm in their garden smiles.

Perhaps their enchantment in the endless constellations -

Dancing so brilliantly through your mind -

Is why you twinkle for their simple ocean eyes.

I do not understand your adoration for them,

As if any being could resist your complexities.

You find shame that you were made to be intangible,

And must I watch as they are lost to you again?

He will say you have grown too cold, so distant -

And he fears you float to high for his embrace.

So let him stay rooted were he belongs.

Do not grieve him, for he is foolish for leaving you -

More foolish than you are for loving him.

Then you’ve go and find solace in women of the sky.

You love how they hold the clouds in their laughter,

And let them lure you by dancing together in their sunlight.

I cannot believe you let them sway you so easily,

Just because they make their agony look beautiful,

By making love to you in their rain -

As they claim to marvel in your breathtaking divinity.

But I try to tell you, these creatures are all the same,

And you always find the most ruinous of lovers.

Your stardust kiss will burn her lips,

And she will shun the divinity she once loved in you.

Though she may say she is beyond the earth

She cannot understand the burdens you hold,

When you speak of galaxies beyond her little world.

Your infatuation demands you give your all to them,

But I beg of you do not, they are tethered to the earth -

And you are much to seraphic to love them.

I cannot fault you for your pointless desire -

For who in all the universe could fault you?

But shamefully I desire you, in all the same ways,

So for our miserable attachments, who has been the bigger fool?