Elucidate your truth for me.
How can I know you who behold
Only the bright periphery?
Essentially unbought, unsold,
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Yield your unrevealing kiss.
Not me your secret arms enfold
Though truthfully you murmur, 'This
Is an embodied truth you hold.'
I could forego the embodied truth
With all its warmth if I could find
The secret that your frightened youth
Buried one midnight in your mind.
If I could find first truth in you,
Let it be alien, cold, unkind,
I'd change it for this residue,
This bulk that leaves the spirit blind.