good one

[fflo]

For the Dead


I dreamed I called you on the telephone
to say:  Be kinder to yourself
but you were sick and would not answer

The waste of my love goes on this way
trying to save you from yourself

I have always wondered about the leftover
energy, water rushing down a hill
long after the rains have stopped

or the fire you want to go to bed from
but cannot leave, burning-down but not burnt-down
the red coals more extreme, more curious
in their flashing and dying
than you wish they were
sitting there long after midnight


-- Adrienne Rich

Comments

[crankyasanoldma.livejournal.com]

That is a great poem!

[paperkingdoms]

Mmmmmmm. Very good poem.