mistaking

by Alex Karan

Date: Tue, 09 Jul 1996 15:25:41 -0600 (CST)

Sweet mind or soul,
please keep mistaking
things for one another:

now and then,
boredom and/or lack of fear
for happiness;

a subtle sickness,
if bearable,
for good health;

a lust and/or interruption
of loneliness
for love;

a certain kind of pain
that comes with hope
for joy,

and death, when finally
it cannot be put off any longer,
mistake it for anything and/or everything else.