Early On, There's a Point to Regret

May 25, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is grief in honor of those who have died of Covid-19 and of Memorial Day, which is celebrated in the U.S. on May 25^th.

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A number poem about grief and regret:

Early on, there's a point to regret:

In creative pain, one can make changes.

Grief is a wild, foolish, helpless rebellion,

Heart against stone, desire smashing against

The locked fact, the impenetrable event,

Yielding nothing but the wash back into life.

For one who grieves, there's no point to regret:

One lives through pain, it's not a time for changes,

Undoing in one's heart what one must accept in life,

Repositioning the precise stones one smashes and smashes against.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Grief

May 25: Early On, There’s a Point to Regret