lovepoem #

my brother-in-law listened to
a life-weary friend of many years.
“Have you learned to love yourself?”
my brother-in-law asked.
“I try,” said the friend, “but I
don’t succeed. How about you?”
“I try too,” my brother-in-law said
“but don’t succeed much either.”
the friend nodded. “It would help,” he     
said, “if I didn’t know myself so well.”

This article appears in Dec 9-15, 2010.