Love Poem: Idol
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Written by: Erin Beckett

Idol

The moments you can never 
quite inhabit.

Floating and dodging 
attempts to clutch and hold.
As if to savor, remember the taste 
exactly. As if stories are heard only
through fastidious interpretation.

As if Divinity were careful. But even if 

I lost you, these moments still I’d hold
above all else like worship. Like an Idol 
abolishing a church-ship.
And in this you’d inhabit myself.

And not a thing can hold or keep this.