The Candle I Light

 

One day

          Nothing is possible, the next

Everything

Then the aforementioned is

          Torn apart, uninvited, the thought

“This is an incomprehensible condition”
          Don’t bother with it

People shouldn’t touch other people anyway

          It’s not polite

Just raise your children after their husbands

   

Love yourselves and look everywhere else

          But the suffering

Eat ethnic foods, then

 

In the presence of dawn

          Stand by the window

Where light and bird skim across water

Slight sky, almost pink

This is the purpose of happiness

          Ignoring the pain

You will die one day anyway

 Sooner than you thought

Saying                 We Let this Be.

 

 

                       -------Grace Cavalieri

 

Grace Cavalieri has authored 14 books and chapbooks of poetry, and 20 produced  plays.  In 2005 she won both a Paterson Prize and the Bordighera Award for poetry. Her series "The Poet and the Poem” is in its 29^th  year, now from the Library of Congress via NPR satellite.

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