Red River
Love/Fear No. 24
Every poem in Hearts on the Line stems from an anonymous person graciously answering two questions: “what is my greatest love?”, and “what is my greatest fear?”. The rest is just my poetry…
Life Is a Word, and Love Is a Sentence. It’s a certain thing: linked by blood, by kin, my love: by messy tables, conversation, generations, feeling grateful… I live in their faces, in our rhythms, long goodbyes, treasured flaws, births and weddings, mundane Mondays, ripened faces, and last goodbyes… It’s a certain thing: an empty space aching with loss: some fateful day, a link will break, and our chain will writhe and flail… For now, it’s great – a graceful chain of blood and kin and feelings… One day will ache – may we accept, relinquish, and re-link… Thank You to the Human Spirit…
I would be grateful if you shared your own love and fear on this link…
It’s anonymous and could lead to the next poem!
This person loved their family and feared losing a loved one.
Naturally, it led to a poem that was very concerned with those familial bonds.
It’s a love I enjoyed exploring and a fear that was a bit challenging to write about.
To lose a loved one is hard enough to face when it’s happened, but to willingly face it when it hasn’t, without succumbing to pure misery, required me to do my best.
I hope it was good enough.
Love how much you were able to put into those last couple lines; so few words to describe an idea while also putting into context. Very nicely done.