Many will say
Love cures all
Those without it
Suppose
Once possessed
No grief and loneliness
I would tell them
Even with love
The hole in the world can be felt
And standing in your life
You may still feel as alone
As when you were single
There is no magic pill
Only the kind of sadness
That is not situational
But sits on the perch of the happiest days
Like a drab trailing cloud
Raining when you should be smiling
And the cult of happiness
Declares you a failure
And the cult of love says
Why wasn’t I enough?
And the insistence of mindfulness and karma and gratefulness and other totems
Banish your bad self
To the hinterlands
Where supposed beasts lurk
In the rolling gloom
And you are there talking to your therapist
Minding your manners and saying nothing
Of the deep scratch underneath your skin
Or how you came to be
A changeling
Who unwaged by the ambelical
Left the desolate nest
And found more succor in the sad glass eyes of a stuffed toy
Than any human hands
Many will say
Love cures all
And you saw the old lady in her wheelchair
Recognize you as herself
Fifty years hence
Though you would not wish
To inherit her absences
Growing like an orange
Without sun
Will therefore capture
No taste
Excellent images of desolation
Love reveals. I’m biased. I see the flaws and I, like the ocean, move to embrace all that the people I love are. And keep talk talking attempting to bring up truth so that we can tackle it together.
When I saw the picture, I immediately thought of Leonard Cohen’s song, “Joan Of Arc”, and now the lat lines still fit.
“It was deep into his fiery heart
He took the dust of joan of arc,
And then she clearly understood
If he was fire, oh then she must be wood.
I saw her wince, I saw her cry,
I saw the glory in her eye.
Myself I long for love and light,
But must it come so cruel, and oh so bright?”
It is true that Love, despite the popular myth, is no automatic ticket to the imagined land of Happy Ever After.
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TheFeatheredSleep – Love, no cure all
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Deep words very awesome
You nailed it again, Candice. I’m finally realizing that “love is sufficient unto love” (who said that – Kahlil Gibran?) And love “has no other need except to shine”. ❤️