Wednesday, May 20, 2009

RETURN TO VIRTUE

Virginity means future joy,
Intelligent desire,
Resisting decadent despair,
To build the purest fire,
Unspotted from the world of waste,
Enduring all -- fulfilled and chaste.

(9 May 2009, Grove Creek Canyon, Pleasant Grove, Utah)

1 comment:

Doug P. Baker said...

One of my favorite bands (I don't think they are together anymore), Ballydowse, has a song with the excellent line: "Only the one who has mastered desire ever has ridden its strength."

It echoes your lines, I think.

You are so right!