it is you

I hope it’s you
though I don’t know you yet
but
I could say
is it you
while you could say to me
the same

so if Eve should know
Adam
or reclassify participants
there might be
a garden innocence
about
it

to call it practical
seduction
moral
romance

a merging of our Eden attributions
even
in the inexorable fall
and need to reconcile
our
productivity with our peace
our useful
loves
with love that has no reason
but its own
to exist
and to take over

if
avowed

after all
what did her letter mean
but love conquers
crazy firm
and
keeping against all mortality
as if eternity were here
with us
as well

and it is

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