Poem of the Week: I Must Accept but Can't What Cannot Be

Sunday, August 21, 2016

August 21, 2016

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. This week’s theme is breaking up a love affair.

Today’s poem is about pain being a way of holding on to a former love.

I welcome comments on my poems at http://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com.

Yours,

Nick Gordon

I must accept but can't what cannot be.

I see you and my heart dissolves in pain.

You are not dead, but you are dead to me.

What happened to our love's a mystery.

I rummage through our empty past in vain.

I must accept but can't what cannot be:

That someone else now shares your off-hand "we,"

Now feels your tender tongue all feeling drain . . .

You are not dead, but you are dead to me.

I cannot lay aside my agony:

Again, again I play the same refrain.

I must accept but can't what cannot be.

And yet I know this tortured ecstasy

Is just my way of holding you again.

You are not dead, but you are dead to me,

And still I cannot bear to set you free,

That of our love some remnant might remain.

I must accept but can't what cannot be.

You are not dead, but you are dead to me.

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/imusta.html. For more love poems, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/lovepoems.html .

This week’s theme: Breaking Up a Love Affair.

Sunday, August 21, 2016