[ NaPo 2021 ] [ Gibran ] We Are Living In A Kahlil World

Your hearts know in silence the secret of the days and the nights.    
But your ears thirst for the sound of your heart's knowledge.  
You would know in words that which you have always known in thought.    
You would touch with your fingers the naked body of your dreams.    
And it is well you should.    
    
~ Kahlil Gibran, "The Prophet"    
   
   
   
No amount of gold    
tipping the scales will sway    
Fate towards fancying you    
with the mate of your dreams    
you feel compelled to actualize    
   
Be thus a she or he    
step up onto the pedestal    
you already put either upon    
   
---look!    
   
straight into those dough eyes    
while feeling their bodies    
take shape in each hand    
   
And after sculpting chocolate clay    
in the suite studio of the mind    
daily, don't concern yourself    
with thoughts of them turning out    
not as originally planned    
   
Starving for companionship, artists    
are those who hunger to flesh out    
what hearts already want    
and innately understand