Vita nuova
You gave me another life,
as if the one I had was not enough
and more than I could handle,
but the randomity of your generosity
so much enriched my whole existence
that I feel my life as twice as much
as if I actually now had two lives to lead,
with the responsibility which it imports.
What would I be without it?
Bored out, maybe lost and maybe nothing,
since the new life also gave my life new meaning,
which was maybe what the old one lacked.
So here I am with you locked up in double lives,
and there is nothing we can do about it
but the best of it, to grip and bear it
and keep it out sustaining the charades and role plays
to the end, for better and for worse.
Poetry by Christian Lanciai
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Written on 2011-02-24 at 00:12
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