author's note:
When I took to heart the adage "Know Thyself", I never imagined I'd find so many selves.
UNDER COVER
I am quiet, gentle
Yet there’s brutishness
softly covered over.
I respect it enough
not to wake it up.
I have a little, not a lot.
Never enough to sever legs
or send boys off to war.
But don’t deny my brutishness.
And don’t mock my gentleness,
either--
my domestic demeanor.
Because I can be loud and lose mercy,
whenever I look the other way.
? 2005, Michael R. Patton
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Updated: Saturday, 4 March 2006 8:50 AM CST
