Tempting
by Steven Helmicki
Tempting
So there can be
Intimacy in thought
Our minds close
But our wills unknown
What impulses may
Divulge about beliefs
Relative to various hungers
They are intertwined
Our addictions unknown
Until the hook
Sets us down denial
Tiring to the surface
Our aches will be known
Like a fish on its side
Vulnerable even to itself.
From the author’s book Healing Hands of Women.
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