“Well, it may be the devil or it may be the Lord
But you’re gonna have to serve somebody”
-Bob Dylan
love and worry obsess the same
both beyond our simple reins
the reason why we bow to both
dwells in their common mastery
no chains or ropes to unbind
for none are needed to hold
our simple obsequiousness
when we do just as we’re told
we worry the power outside
knocking through our walls
and fall prostrate on the floor
to love’s unrelenting flow
which choice we decide to make
creates the difference in our fate
(September 28, 2014)
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