I fling open my arms
to greet the whole world
and you duck and run
right beneath
my wide embrace—
it seems
holding you means
letting go
of everything
everything
else
February 10, 2015 by Rosemerry
I fling open my arms
to greet the whole world
and you duck and run
right beneath
my wide embrace—
it seems
holding you means
letting go
of everything
everything
else
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged letting go, love, poem, poetry, possessiveness, relationships | 3 Comments
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hmmm… are you implying perhaps, that “you” is not of this world? (how else could you embrace the whole word, yet not them?) ;~)
but, yes, some folks are just durn elusive, hard to get/keep aholt of. and, to be sure, we do sometime need to focus our attentions. but isn’t there a holding on without _holding_ on?
i like the playfulness of this poem. (and just in time for tonight’s, Try-It-On-For-Size intro to your and Brucie’s upcoming Ah Haa retreat.) you had me so fully at, duck and run.
The idea here of someone that wants all you, that won’t let you be a part of the world and wants you exclusively, that’s what what comes through to me. A powerful point. My only hitch is that first line, the word “fling” — and the way you say “fling open” — I want to say “I fling my arms open” but then I even wonder if the word fling is necessary. I see the energy you want, but…
oh no! i’m disagreeing with anon. i like fling because: 1) it agrees with the tone of the poem, e.g. my aforementioned “duck and run;” and, 2) because fling is a precisely active verb, one of those adds a distinctive element—“open” and “fling open” are not the same actions, don’t covey the same meaning/emotion. Further, I like it’s playfulness, its colloquial nature, which sets off the second stanza’s possible tongue-in-cheek barb.