Poor Soul

Sometimes I must speak roughly
to it: "Shut up! Just do
what I say," because I've been watching
the soul for a long time.
The soul capitulates like the rabbit
to whom God gave no
really useful defenses.

Poor soul, it is not a mind
that it can know itself
and so it is still capable
of love.





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