The Wrong Ones
There are those who make us sad,
maybe not at first; maybe at first
we love them and have been waiting
to love them all our lives, but maybe
they’re really only second chances
to love those we had neglected
to love before—our mothers
and lovers, fathers and strangers—
and maybe we were right
not to love them the first time;
maybe our love was holding out
for a world of its own choosing
and those who make us sad now
make us sad because we’re loving
the wrong ones, the ones we’d hoped
would grow smaller as we walked away
instead of showing themselves again
in those we have failed to love anew.
James Tolan, from Mass of the Forgotten (Autumn House Press, 2013)
zondag 2 maart 2014
James Tolan : The Wrong Ones
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