March 8, 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.
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A poem about a healthy fear of love that is not mutual:
You wrote your name upon her thigh
And looked at me. I
wondered why
You hurt me so. What
demon drew
You on to be so not
like you?
Sometimes it seems
you want to cause
Me grief, as if to
test the loss
Of me, to see how
much sweet pain
You need to feel
alive again.
I love you, yet I
fear a love
In which my function
is to prove
Repeatedly you cannot
lose
The thing you want
but cannot choose.
I stay in hopes that
you will see
Someday you cannot
hope to be
Both fully loved and
fully free,
For love comes only
mutually.
© by Nicholas Gordon
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This week’s theme: Fear of Love
3/8: You Wrote Your Name upon Her Thigh
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