POETRY | SELF-REFLECTION
Live Like You Own It!
A moment of life generally taken for granted.
2 min readOct 18, 2023
You scared yourself when you laughed at our plight as I relished in your easiness.
The piquancy of Hope thwarted, slapped for its appearance.
What does Joy do but recoil and resist in the wake of a never ending battle?
Shall I refrain from judgment and honor the moment? How do I love and let go?
Who the hell said it? The thing about solitude. That you can only love another if you embrace aloneness. Rilke, I think…the depth of solitude that one must know to love and not possess.
If I can stand alone, complete in my existence, I love without attachment, unconditional.
I think I am attempting the impossible.
The veil between this and that is ever so thin. Who am I to…