I am a brutally - soft woman

a poem - an honesty - a manifesto of paradoxicality

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When the bell of love tolls twice
I am a brutally - soft woman

It chimes - and She chimes
And I am devoted to her rhyme

A hapless madness
a heart promised ache

Yet, I am a brutally - soft woman
And again I cradle the break

letters I send - Love, Sea to Shore
though silent her rapport -
I am a brutally soft woman
And I loved Her - back flat to floor

She never wrote to me - the world
not a single whetted word

Yet, upon her hoarded moor
the bell of love struck thrice
She kissed me - and I poured