pure nature.

Or

would that title
go better as question?
Purity - the kind 
we mean in wonder 
or at least admiration, 
not in accusation 
of narrowness - 
or intolerance -  
Purity that simply
is

Purity of nature,
or in us, of focus, force 
or purpose - is just 
the same as excess 
without slightest
deviation 
in aim,

- isn't it? 

It isn't rhetorical,
the question. I don't know. 

Perhaps it's not a thing 
I should know. Ever since 
the fall of innocence got 
so inextricably tangled up 
in ignorance, we've been 

wondering such paradoxically 
pure, potentially perverted-
in-implication

things 

haven't we? 
Or have we. 
Or was that 
just 
me!