words like
lover,
love in fact
i read and see but forget
what do they mean ?
I hear people say
my husband , my friend
and feel i can not say anything
that would mean something
all that comes out when i speak
are lies
meaningless attempts
to fit in a place
i don't belong.
People are not something
we own
yet people insist
on holding on:
my husband
my wife
my car
my cat
the list is long
yet all these things
are on loan.
People and animals and objects
are not things we really own
like a heart
or a brain
or eyes to see
and to read
words.
what really lasts
when all is taken away?
when all is lost?
perhpas only something
we can not hold:
the soul.
The other day my small son
said:
Momi, we have a soul
right?
that we can not see or touch?
Yes, i said,
saying that much
would be just about
right.
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Comments: 8
Alison, you are much too kind!! it takes one to know one though!
thanks lost soul, you don't seem so lost at all!
the advice to keep flowing, to being open to the questions like the poet Rilke advices in "letters to a young poet" come back to me, you got me thinking with your comment as well!