Growing Towards the Light
Are you?
Is what he said
Straight in, session one
After small talk about the
Geranium on his bookshelf
And me prevaricating
Talking about auxins,
Anything
Except why I was there.
I thought session one
Would be…
Less poetic, less allegorical
You know
Less tangential
But he was straight in,
On my turf
Trespassing on purpose
Irritating the metaphorical
Edges of me, to flip me,
To see what’s underneath
Like the limpet
I was am will be…
Trouble is with these
Professionals
They charge enough
So silence is expensive.
I turned around
And said ‘Yes, I am.
That’s why I’m here’
His name, engraved by the way
On a brass plate, Sr. Garcia,
From Buenos Aries,
‘Call me Jesús’ he said,
His warm smile told me
Where to sit
I nearly knelt