Otherwise
You do not meet your own desires in those
You love. You cannot find yourself in men
Or women, even women who transpose
Your feelings into mountain and braw glen
With mist that rivals healing of the bone,
Or men who stroke emotion in your veins.
The secret that you need is not a groan
Which others can deliver. Labor pains
By definition are interior.
The absolutes that others can give birth
To for you are mismatched, ulterior,
And miscarriages. They have the worth
Of counterfeit roulette chips in Reno.
Others offer only a casino.