A Love Poem

Loves Lost

        You, my beloved lost in advance, my never-appeared: 

                       –  Du im Voraus by Rainer Maria Rilke

There are

So many lost ways to

Love.

No one willing to count

The differences

Your latest way

Is misshapen, cruel poem!

Mind what you say

How you send your words

Orchestrate the unknown

Love's poetry is for love

Open, passionate

The long, long kiss

Send no other

If there's charm, beauty

Desire, allure. If not

Send The Panther – the other

Composed by Rilke

It will pace, grow weary

In the hands

No heart to win or lose

It's just a panther pacing

Back and forth

An image in a cage