Family only

Often I forget what it is all about.

I forget that after eking out a living

one has to go on to seek the loving.

The egging on by evolution
be taken up as a hot pursuit.

All the way to the altar would be good
for an unhitched man's libido
is too much of a threat
to the good and complaining neighbors.

Who could blame them?

These shoes of solitude are heavy

with darkness and dirt from the unknown.