March 9, 2019
Dear Subscriber:
Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of
view. The theme for this week is fear of love.
I welcome comments on my poems at https://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com
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A poem about the fear of breaking up a painful love:
When love is an affliction,
There's not much one
can do.
Despite the way
you've treated me,
I'm still in love with
you.
I am the wave and you
the rock
Against which I must
break:
Again, again the
crushing jolt,
The pain I can't
forsake;
Again, again the long
retreat
To safety, far from
shore,
And then again, I
don't know why,
The long trip back
for more.
Perhaps it is
nostalgia for
A long uncertain
glow,
Or just some hope so
beautiful
I cannot let it go.
Perhaps it is the
need to try
For those who must
depend
On who we are and
what we do,
For whom this should
not end.
What evil makes you
hurt me so,
What defect of the
heart?
What sense there is
no greater whole
Of which you are a
part?
What lonely choice
that only you
Be served by what you
choose?
What hard, hard fear
of losing what
It is a gift to lose?
I dream sometimes my
waiting love
Has made you turn
again.
But you care only for
yourself,
And I must love in
vain.
© by Nicholas Gordon
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This week’s theme: Fear of Love
3/9: When Love Is an Affliction
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