TOUCH MY HEART – BRING MADNESS

“I was never really insane, except on occasions where my heart was touched.”

– a letter to Maria Clemm

Shall I expose to you my heart

That you may touch it

Take it in your hand

Gently hold it

Without judgment

I think I shall

Come, touch it so

Send me into that

Sweet terror

That divine madness

Pierced straight through

By the envenomed

Darts of Eros

© 2019 Bob Wertzler

Bob Wertzler is retired from almost twenty years in the mental health field in California and Arizona. There are times the title, “Recovering Therapist”, seems to fit. In 2006 he retired to move to Western North Carolina to help and become primary care giver for his father who had developed Dementia. Before all that, there was work at various times as a soldier (US Army 1967-70), community organizer, cab driver, welfare case worker, wooden toy maker, carpenter, warehouse worker, and other things. He relates to a line in a Grateful Dead song, “What a long, strange trip its been.”

Bob blogs at: https://cabbagesandkings524.wordpress.com