study

I think she's someone
who wants to put passion
first in everything, but too much
of the world is not that simple. And she won't

forgive herself

for acting thoughtlessly in areas
she hasn't figured out. Her passion
in areas of principle is made possible
by how well
she knows
those things. In
politics and her personal
integrity, she may be ruled

by passion, but I bet
she's put a lifetime of thought
into them, in-between the tests. Perhaps

she looked at this proposal as a crisis,
as important as any of her principles, and
whose solution required a lifetime's worth
of thought, in too short a time
to accomplish it right
or well.
She cinched off

her emotions, in an attempt to clarify
the decision that needed so urgently
to be made, correctly.

She overcompensated. And she
has paid indirectly.