Analysis of Only As Sacred

You want to define Poetry,
behind the safety of your bars

Open the door to your cage,
a world awaits, whose feathers tar

Dusty journals and how-to books,
no longer serve you here

The price of your admittance,
an acknowledgement of fear

With words only as strong
as the impression they leave

And feelings only as sacred
—as memory retrieves

(Seattle Washington: March, 2017)