One for a quiet Sunday.
Salute.
(A lone voice whispers)
Are you living within a paradox?
I hope you are.
For loving deeply often involves suffering, sacrifice, or loss.
And every form of love teaches us something but also takes something from us.
You do know, I know you do, that love contains many “small deaths”:
Heartbreak, letting go, change, vulnerability, fear, endings, guilt, and so many more.
So is love just another paradox?
A paradox where love is life-giving, but to love is also to “die” many times—through heartbreak, endings, or simply the vulnerability required to love someone?
This short poem compresses a whole philosophy of the human experience into two lines.
Haber amado en cualquier edad.
Es haber muerto de tantas maneras. (S)
Having loved at any age.
It's having died in so many ways.
(C)
Copyright John Duffy
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