December 2011
29 posts
“You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.”
—Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Trenchant
I’m trying to forget
what she can’t revere.
Rolling of the tongue,
bleeding in my ear.
It was almost always,
and a lighter shade of real.
This echo doesn’t fade,
from the love she didn’t feel.
JPD 2011