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Senior Member

since 2006-06-06

Posts 513

0 posted 2011-09-20 02:41 AM

Why am I never done with you?
Each replaced by a thousand
Numbers (Evil that they are!)
Too great to comprehend

This blood flow cannot be staunched
I can only wait
Til I am bled dry
As if I could ever be bereft of thought!

Why?
This curse, this blessing...this God-given gift
Which I love...and fear
I love the freedom given
   And fear the prison looming
I love the continuity
   And fear the ceasing

Do I live in love or fear?
  The romantics would say love
     But I am not a romantic
         Am I?
  The pessimists would say fear (and claim realism)
     But I am not a pessimist
         Am I?

I think...that I must live my life in hope that I might know only love and need never fear.

I live my life a fool.

OwlSA
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

1 posted 2011-09-20 02:56 AM

Superb, superb, superb!

You are embracing the freedom to be vulnerable!  I am 65 and nearly 66, and I have done it all my life - sobbed many tears and sung many joys - and I wouldn't have it otherwise.

This is an amazing introspective work of honest self-questioning, self-analysis and self-knowledge which all adds up (numbers again!) to self-worth.

We all need the balance you weigh up in this poem.  We also need the fear to a certain degree - it is counterpoint to hope and allows hope to keep its feet on the ground while its head is in the clouds - a delightful place to be.  I have often described myself as a realistic idealist.

Well, if you are a fool, you are one of the wisest fools I have ever come across!

Owl

JL
Member Ascendant

since 2004-04-01

Posts 6128
Texas, USA

2 posted 2011-09-20 05:44 AM

"I think...that I must live my life in hope that I might know only love and need never fear.

I live my life a fool."

Powerful write.
Enjoyed the inner conflict,
and self defining conclusion.

JL

Love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul,and with all your mind. Love your neighbor as yourself.
Maranatha!

flash
Member

since 2010-11-28

Posts 213
miami beach, florida

3 posted 2011-09-20 06:18 AM

I love self-reflective poems that pose questions because the reader (along with the poet) will ponder and reflect deeper when confronted with a ??

Enjoyed the read,

Al

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