The Other

not infrequently 

the heart has raced 

with fatal longing 

and stopped 

even as it rushes and gushes 

to be alive 

to belong 

to possess

forever and ever the mind 

has served a warning to itself

and remained subjugated 

to the impositions of civility 

and respect

even as it cannot stop venerating 

the other 

and another

confused between the desire 

to possess or to give

forever dying yet living

or ecstatic in living by dying

forever the desire

the longing

forever the holding back

 most frequently
albeit unreasonably
the heart has its own reasons