Former And Latter Poem by Lonnie Hicks

If I Weep,
I want
it to be Torrents;

if I Cry, ,
make it Tsunami;

if I Lust
have me be Ravenous;

If Sad,
have my eyes
Glow in the Dark.

Empathy for me
must be Complete;

Love All Consuming;
Pity must be
the Heights of Grief;

Death must be
Really Dead.

No half way measures;
they are the Necro-Nibbles of Life.

The Greeks counseled
Moderation in all things

but they did not;
Democracy is an extreme
form of Individualism
and Sexually they
did not
cease at the Moderation Crease.

The Truth here
is that Creativity
only comes at the extremes
but not without its price;
one that I will pay
for an Extreme Life
rather than the alternative-
Slow Moderate Death.

These are sometimes
choices we make;
giddy Risky Risk
or Slow Suffocation;

or being mugged in life
slow frame
by slow frame.

Put me down
for the former
you can take the latter.