A Time and a Place

a time, a place
your smile, displaced
by passing slur (?)
and loaded words
those provocatives
will never learn
'cause you know
you have only to
cast away the things they say
those charlatans will surely bend and break

the proof
my youth
my life, my truth
and every word and every way
you try the same

and you're affraid

of loneliness

some prone to this
to, baby, yield
and I have but to realize
that love will get a spark