Posted by Paco (204.111.49.53) on January 07, 2001 at 11:52:23:
The Other Life
... Must you give up
this life, whose doors
you have dreamed open?
Though you have parted
its curtains, worn
its moonlit glow?
Haven't you earned
this grief that makes you
unable to breathe
anything else?
by Andrea Hollander Budy