Sometimes I Wish I Were a Wall

February 4, 2020

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is love.

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A love poem in which a lover wishes he could bear his lover's pain:

Sometimes I wish I were a wall

Upon which you could hang your pain--

To see it so, to know its beauty,

Bond of yearning, bearing love.

Pain is color, in between

Desire and death, white and black;

Light's most lovely at the dawn,

And then, again, approaching night.

Sometimes I wish that I could kiss

The world and take away all pain,

Feel it all, for everyone,

And then go mad to prove I'm real.

But love continues, as does pain,

And death engenders both, for aye,

And the river murmurs ceaselessly

Around the bend on which we live.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Love

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