Full Embrace With Fail To Do

When I write lines
I want not to change a word
as I declare them to be a poem,
but, I do and do not
until I do.

When I snap a photograph
I want not to alter a pixel
but rather to see the great image
that I saw when the shutter shut,
yet, I do and do not
until I do as an army of pixels tells me to do.

Full Embrace with Fail To Do

Bob Komives

 

When I pencil an image onto paper,
I make it over into digits
in my wish simply to share it with you,
but, I fail
because my wish is my falsehood.
I know my addiction
to finding love 
—reciprocal love—
—both gentle and tough— 
in what I do
during full embrace
with what I fail to do.

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