A friend of mine, Adele Sakler, has been writing a lot of poetry and posting it on her blog, Existential Punk, and it has me thinking about some of the poetry I love…so I thought I’d share one of my favorites here. (Be sure and check out Adele’s poetry too – she has some good stuff. )
Thread by Catherine Lucy Czerkawska
If I love you
Your life instantly becomes
More fragile than my own,
Your body more frail
Each cough or minor pain
A symptom of some dread
Disease or other.
Death is on every road
Or in every other car
Some nights in my skin
Flutters in apprehension
And I am so threatened that
Caring translates itself
Inside my head to
Stone cold anger.
Because I am unsufficient
Tormented by the frailty
Of you whom I love.
Selfish I
Find you
Necessary for my own definition
Your life is a single thread
It snaps
I wither.
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