Love Drunk

Surviving Love

Love Drunk
Crystal skin
Fragile dream
New wine

My Lord instructed,
...Don't put new wine
Into old skins
Lest the new wine
burst the old bag
and the new wine
Wastes...

Weathered heart
Shaken reed
Vintage

My soul inquires:
What becomes
of the old skin,
if it has lost it's
first vintage?
The new wine
is all but dangerous,
and the old wine, once
lost is but a drunken
fool's urine...

Blessed old skin
Loves the wine so
it longs to kiss the
lips of one never
drunken,
Only once