7. Named For A Martyr

yes, it's canned
and over-produced
and hyped until
you want to gag

but there was once
a sweetness there
and remembering it makes
you imagine crying

snowflake fragile but
durable, leatherine -
our hearts

the clean idea of love
the soaring of it's feeling
the long, gruelling march of it's practice

may we never lose our courage