Tread ever so gently into love

Take an insurance policy

‘A mortgage of peace!’

Do not fall in love with a poet

Or sculptor

They are spoken for uncompromisingly

Outside the life you know and dream of

You cannot follow them into the depth of their world lest you suffocate

Or drown in the swirling vortexes

Of their creative spirits!

A great sculptor does not create artworks that define spaces

But compel space to bow to form

And shape

A poet violates syntax speech grammar phonetics and phonology

His words may bruise and build

Crack and create

Strangle mangle and maim

The ugliness that blots the world

You so much love

The artist disrupts your habits of feeling

Thinking and emoting

Leaving you aghast yet thrilled

To love one is to take a risk

Breath taken by adventure to burst

Seams of comprehension

An artist dreams awake

To create a night of palpable darkness to be illuminated by his creative light!