March 4, 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 to someone who is afraid to love:
Your fear is not surprising.
It's always ended
badly:
Fury, betrayals,
recriminations.
Then, for days and
weeks and months
An agony worse than
grief
Because you also feel
like such a fool.
Love is like diving
or rock climbing:
Spectacular, but your
heart sticks in your mouth
Every moment you're
there.
There's an ease in
not caring,
A looseness in the
belly.
Then, as love approaches,
a knot tightens like a snake.
Being alone and free
is like looking in from outside:
People give and get
affection,
Are seized by
extraordinary happiness and pain,
Live in prison and in
heaven,
Deal with the
necessity of working on what must be worked out,
While you watch them
as if they were on TV.
Life is full of love
and difficulty.
Its riches cannot be
gotten at except through choice.
You must enter it by
loving this person or that person,
And people inevitably
fall short of your hopes.
But to live and not
love, and not be loved,
Is like spending your
entire life alone in your room.
© by Nicholas Gordon
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This week’s theme: Fear of Love
3/4: Your Fear Is Not Surprising
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