Possibilities
Is it possible to be in love
and wise at the same time?
Stephen Dunn, „Beliefs“
It may be unwise of me
to tell you I love you. It may be–
who knows?– tempting the Gods.
But I’ve always been a man
who takes risks, which is why,
soon, I will go your bed
in your husband’s house
and I will show you what we both
are missing, in the unwise ordinariness
of what we have sown. I will show you
the way a wise man behaves
when the flesh of feeling and the feeling
of flesh come upon him, and how,
Brennende Liebche, desire is merely wisdom
incarnated, the way a man with nothing
to lose but his own unhappiness
can enter your house, brazen
with belief, and take you
and then take you again, because
he is wise enough to know
what ought to be his, wise enough
to let the dog snuggle beside you
as well, the only love true love
can accommodate, beside its own.