How am I to pray your care
over him for whom you care so fully?

--whom I love brutely, dully, as
an imbecile loves a door, as
a sea gull loves the bather's
unattended bread.

What do I mean by this love
anyway? I mean my attachment
to my own attachment. I mean
incomprehensible wish. I wish
I meant his good, but I wish
only my own good, which he is,
for myself.

How am I to pray
your care over him
for whom you care so fully?

Asking for intercessors, you set me
in this riddle, so I repeat it back to you
and concede Amen.

moves and removes