Edifice

sometimes it’s best

to learn of ourselves

by another’s rejection

and excel at the art of loving

what it seems no one else can

to alone make of ourselves

a temple of self-knowledge

to make of ourselves in solitude

a holy citadel of love

so when we throw the doors wide

for fresh air and human voices

we might recognize the one

by their equally distinct architecture

while standing grandly beside

instead of becoming small

and warily drifting in to worship