Forty years more or less
More or less alone
And then a clasping
A joining
And two people
Turn into one
Or one and a half
A boy-girl being
Living the adventure
'Til suddenly it ends.
Wandering in the wilderness
Of anything but pain
Psychic skin grafts take a while
Bone grafts even longer
To grow a soul back
Whole and free
To give away again
And then Japan
Where life meets half-life
In clouds of fear
and radiation
All we learn
is that we never learn.
I feel you undervalue the depth of your feeling and the difficulty of human interpersonal relationships with the 3rd verse. You beautifully detail heartache and loss, but I feel comparing the effort necessary to re-group and love again to the hubris of building nuclear plants near earthquake faults without allowing for 1,000 year tsunamis short changes your marvelous human spirit. Please correct me if I'm wrong; I realize I may be totally mis-understanding your poem. That said, I'd just like to point out 1 thing: "History shows again and again how Nature points up the folly of Man...."
ReplyDeleteTried to post previous comment as dMuddy2k but your blog refused my credentials 4x. No surprise because it then refused to believe I was Anonymous thrice more. So sign me sir, Anonymous.
ReplyDeleteOr maybe it was just a pun on half-life. Too Much Joy did it better.
ReplyDeleteMaybe the blog recognized your cookie and wanted you to comment as "Malcolm" again, as you did the first time. I have limited Blogger Fu, unfortunately.
It's a pain in the ass to have to search through every posting to find your comments on my comments, but I have unlimited time today (he said fatuously). It keeps saying my OpenID credentials cannot be verified.
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