Robin Shumaker

Real Audio - Gypsy Born

Title: "Group"

The Amorous End

We want love so much

yet we are terrified

to see it approaching.

O Bittersweet flame!

It scares me to death

yet there is nothing

we desire more.

At one end

we have a head

telling us to flee.

to run for our lives.

At the other end

we have a sex organ

magnetized to

blissful doom.

This is the predicament

of every male mantis!

To love is to die!

We can only assume

our Creator is perverse

& the Universe is

a black sum of paradox.