October 16, 2004
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questions of the moment. (speaking of this transitory time)
like any poet or artist, i never publish or publicize my work until it’s done, but i am not sure how this one ought to end. so perhaps one of you could advise me…
if i become attached to you,
then what shall i do?
if you become my friend,
then how shall i leave again?
if i really do unpack,
what will i do if i don’t come back?
Comments (3)
ah, the persistent m-trial.. to love and let go or to never love? resist the pain of ‘becoming alone’ again and again or to always stay in the aloneness by never allowing others near? the tension of becoming “attached.”
it ends in a “minor” key, but sounds complete to me!
thanks for your thoughts, sam & brenda.
sam, now that you’ve put it that way, it makes it quite clear that it’s better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. certainly it is better to “become alone” than to always stay in aloneness. but when you’re looking into change and transition in such a foreseeable future, it is difficult to allow oneself to make attachments.
but i am reminded that wherever i am, i must be “all there”. must give God my all wherever i might be and not just halfheartedly.