20 November 2012

Ritual Acts (iii) ...

... is a poem by Adrienne Rich I discovered at the Strand bookshop at NYC and a part of me agrees with it a little ... 

After all - to have loved, wasn't that the object?
Love is the only thing in life
but then you can love too much
or the wrong way, you lose 
yourself or you lose
the person
or you strangle each other 
Maybe the object of love is 
   to have loved 
   greatly
   at one time or another
Like a cinema trailer 
watched long ago