Never Without

Never Without / Joshua Alan Sturgill

The harmonic mean
between love and wisdom
is humility, the lily
uniting lightless earth
with anchorless sky.
I do not know how

I love you. I know
there are false loves (while
wisdom has no imposter)
and wisdoms misused
(while love is never
without her champion).
Incomplete

is the name of my homeland.
So I invoke
humility, trusting
humility cannot help
but lead the drowned
or desiccated man onward
to a garden of springs