Overwhelming adversity
How shall I express my love of you
when there is lack of any means
except of mortal kind that never is enough?
And what is worse, I am unworthy of you
and of love, since I have no means to support you
and not even to support myself,
while your haphazard situation is at risk
and can not stand a further strain of any kind,
while I am hopelessly at bay
with no means even to express my love,
so tragically fettered in a cage of desperate impossibilities.
But let adversity continue towering in overwhelmingness
since there is nothing that can not be overcome by love,
nor even death, a powerless and foolish thing
compared to facts of immortality
through which love triumphs ever gloriously,
as if the strange phenomenon of immortality
existed only for the sake of love;
and that, I guess, is just about as close as we can get
to any universal truth.
Poetry by Christian Lanciai
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Written on 2006-12-15 at 10:06
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