Handle With Care

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    Handle With Care
    Handle With Care

    I was so awestruck by her
    Beautiful features I was unaware
    Of the label that said beware
    Fragile emotions, handle with care

    I was so in love I couldn’t see
    Past the physical beauty of the lovely lady
    That all of her she wanted to share
    I missed the label, fragile… handle with care

    I could not see all the hurt she did hide
    The heartbreak and pain she carried inside
    I missed the bold letters on her sleeves she did wear
    Fragile broken woman, handle with care

    You see behind the beauty was a tower of strength
    Wit, tenacity, and intelligence
    But I could not see the badge she did wear
    Anytime I’d try to get near

    She would draw near then hastily retreat
    For a brief season, leaving me in defeat
    She would for brief moments, her pain to me share
    That her broken heart was fragile, handle with care

    She is a woman so lovely and fair
    A woman of ebony beauty rare
    And should she her heart offer beware
    Hers is a fragile one… handle with care

    H. Wilson

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    Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.

    Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) U.S. poet.

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