I do not wonder
that you’re so firm,
a chair’s chair.
No church-squirms to you
when you wait an audience
with anyone,
including your maker.
I do not love you
because you are
more a statue of yourself,
less an image of me.
I do not wait the dawn for you.
You will not be there.
I will.
298 ®Copyright 1972 Jack Scott. All rights reserved.
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