Holmes, Keats and Lizzie

To decipher the world

piecing together minutae, that go unseen

like a map

or feel it as deep as the earth; wide as the ecstatic bloom of a flower

There she smiles to hide the pain,

of standing lonely before a facade

restrained in every way

from changing what's behind.

lonely callings yet -

as Holmes and Keats and Lizzie know

they wouldn't have it any other way.

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With love to companions in text Sherlock Holmes, John Keats, and Elizabeth Bennet. To have them on our side when it feels like a burden - reminds me that the volume of our feelings, insights and perception can always be put to good use.