02 July 2007

today's poem

e.e. cummings

let it go-the
smashed word broken
open vow or
the oath cracked length
wise-let it go it
was sworn to
go

let them go-the
truthful liars
andthe false fair friends
and the boths and
neithers-you must

let them go they
were born
to go

let all go-the
big small middling
tall bigger really
the biggest and all
things-let all go
dear
so comes love

3 comments:

jacob said...

if this poem doesn't change your life, nothing will.

kls said...

Charles, you sage, you!

erika jane said...

guess who i found thru the blogvine!? i am in tokyo now with Erika jane, it's karen
i have been reading your entries which gives me the same feeling as peeping into people's homes on evening wanders,
I live in india now with Kaye Aoki, going to start a year of teaching piano