Yard Sale of Thoughts

All is Wasted

Samson and Delilah
Lucas Cranach the Elder (German, 1472–1553)

What is weakness
if not words?
Whispered in a lover's lap,
the spurs and traps
of afternoon naps.

What is weakness
if not she?
Lips of amaryllis,
a forbidden kiss,
the stolen bliss.

What is weakness
but being told
we can have none
of this?

The foreign fruit
whose juice
the lips have never tasted.

Faith is a delicate defense
against blinding anguish.

A strength easily sheered.

When we choose to languish,
all is wasted.