Love Poem: Simple As
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Written by: Erin Beckett

Simple As

Wind through the door-
     smile and close it. 

I can’t believe we’ve met,
     can’t believe the thing 
     I didn’t know I cared to be real-
          blissfully unaware

about how I needed to be touched-
     can be believed into the real 
     simple as art 
          made manifest,

then prodded over and over in failed attempts
      to equate interpretation with truth-
          truth the realist jest.

And yet, it is a thing
     we gave a name-
          collective unity never before seen,

nor has it been since.