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Reception

Retention

By Gerard DiLeoPublished a day ago 1 min read
Reception
Photo by Tanja Tepavac on Unsplash

Use your senses

Ignore all expenses

Open your eyes

Openly size

Open your ears

Deafen your fears

Taste with your tongue

To sing the unsung

Inhale the aroma

Inducing your coma

Feel with your soft parts

To gauge how much force

Think with your mind

To abide what you find

Run there speed-legged

To the question that's begged

Embrace with both arms

Akimbo—snatch charms

Abandon your loneliness

To reach for anotherliness

Take up arms 'gainst harms

In step, arm-in-arms

Choose the dissenter

Of the Gaussian center

Eschew the deniers

Who purge the outliers

Reckon the addition

One plus the ambition

Derive the right answer

For the fate of a romancer

Take your brain with you

So as to continue

Accept the nonsensical

To mate so identical

Seize with exposure

To rampart enclosure

Vulnerability

Is human fertility

And the life you give

Is the life you live

love poems

About the Creator

Gerard DiLeo

Retired, not tired. Hippocampus, behave!

Make me rich! https://www.amazon.com/Gerard-DiLeo/e/B00JE6LL2W/

My substrack at https://substack.com/@drdileo

[email protected]

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  • Justin Blackabout 23 hours ago

    "Vulnerability / is human fertility" oooo I love that. Thank you for sharing!

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