Sunday, November 22, 2009
Whatever You Offer
Whatever You Offer
Whatever you offer me,
I will take it.
I don't need bribes
to swallow
the bread and honey
of your love.
This wine needs no water
to wash it down.
Even if we must
perform
the many labors,
or huddle in the
darkened corners
of the caves
for eons
as the silence
thickens
and the glaciers
come and go.
This is what we have
hungered for
for so many days
of so many lives.
I am ready to be fed.
Dorothy Walters
November 22, 2009
