[lit-ideas] Re: Freedom
- From: John McCreery <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: Lit-Ideas <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2015 13:51:00 +0900
Lawrence,
I don't know if you have seen this piece about love and grieving
<http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/03/11/memento-mori/?smid=fb-share&_r=0>.
To see both it and this poem on the same day is deeply affecting.
John
On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 1:44 PM, Lawrence Helm <lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> Arminius craved freedom,
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> Emerson too as do I -
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> Though not from Susan: her
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> Medication, her need for doctors
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> And tests nor from the
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> Passage of time glad to
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> Be past those youthful
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> Muddles made of relationships
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> When I wasn't willing to
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> Listen to older minds nor even
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> Simple sense - but freedom to
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> Think through impediments and
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> Past baffles to whatever I chose;
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> Or have I been a dupe of fate
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> Choosing the tropes that
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> Appeared unbidden in conformance
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> To my genetic disposition?
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> I looked for a trope just now and found
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> A hole in a curtain. Even so, I'm on
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> The upper floor. Who lacking my
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> Confession would know it's there?
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> I need something larger to yawn
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> Backward throughout the time of
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> Susan's illness. I can't remember all
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> The steps I saw it take to waste her,
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> But I shrink back from the edge of
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> What I do, God giving me the
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> Freedom to see it and be afraid.
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