In Verse Ladders
for S.R-S.

don’t want to climb down
another hole
as difficult as death almost
to climb out of

her morality or ethics
or whatever to protect
she suggests, she declares
she’s not ready yet

what of when she is though
when she considers it’s convenient
should it be, automatically,
convenient for me

waiting all my days to marry
saving myself but not entirely
not quite well enough for my wife-to-be

should I get in bed
with who is not appropriate for me
in and out of bed

anyway we might happen to roll
or happen to turn

should I too not wait until I’m certain
wait and see -- until I’m married


© Obediah Michael Smith, 2008
9:54 a.m. 10.03.09