love is not all
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Love is not all: It is not meat nor drink
Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain,
Nor yet a floating spar to men that sink
and rise and sink and rise and sink again.
Love cannot fill the thickened lung with breath
Nor clean the blood, nor set the fractured bone;
Yet many a man is making friends with death
even as I speak, for lack of love alone.
It well may be that in a difficult hour,
pinned down by need and moaning for release
or nagged by want past resolutions power,
I might be driven to sell your love for peace,
Or trade the memory of this night for food.
It may well be. I do not think I would.
--- Edna St. Vincent Millay
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Ja ustvari ne znam šta ovo znači,
i zašto me slijedi...
i što hoće od mene...
ali muči me nelagodna slutnja
da sam u nekom davnom času
sama pristala ...
podala se...
predala i prisegnula
čak s prilično uvjerenja možda...
pa iako je taj čas pokriven zaboravom
- ja ne mogu zaboraviti.
muči me nelagodna slutnja
da sam u tu rabotu zauvijek upletena
i ma koliko još odležala
da mi neće biti oprošteno.
tessa k
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