[poem] (This is a) Love Song

[kaberett]

If the highest calling is utility
then show me I am useful
by using me.

Make of me a book,
vellum of my skin,
a vessel for your stories and your selves.

(art is good if it arises from necessity
ein Kunstwerk ist gut, wenn es aus Notwendigkeit entstand
I am good if I am necessary--
or at least I am sufficient)

(fill me with your breath your hope
your need
your dreams of being as sufficient
as beautiful as necessary as all
that we must be)

(o please gift me belief)

Comments

[rynia]

this is beautiful.

[kaberett]

Thank you so much for saying.

[raze]

Oof. So many feelings.

[kaberett]

there is a related sonnet trying to start:

Words are the piecemeal sacrifice I make
upon the altar of utility...

[birke]

I like it.

[kaberett]

Thank you enormously for saying. <3

[shehasathree]

♥

[kaberett]

<3

[inoru_no_hoshi]

This kinda made my heart ache, in that yes-good-so-pretty-but-kinda-ow way. <3

[kaberett]

thank you so much for saying <333