No Learning

      There is no learning but to yearn and yearn,
      And by wanting see what we think we are
      (Composed of stuff from a farther star).-
      Desire deep-in to recklessly burn;
5     Desire to assemble what all we are
      By partial parts into one whole complete;
      To work out the sum where integers meet
      And write an answer without a scar,
      Without a stitch where kissing incompletes
10    Tell-out by telltale the nightly labor
      Used to unify our dawning wonder
      That recklessly burns with day's own heat-
      Until our in-dark echo cries for night,
      Cool and apart, and all away from sight.

 

From the collection "The Timid Leaper"

Written by Gregg Glory [Gregg G. Brown]

More information available on gregglory.com.