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Does love become an antonym
when deflected?
Animosity, enmity, ill will?
Perhaps indifference was your tall shadow
between me and the sun,
my star dulled by your distance,
but not for long.
Learned to search for light,
bent my will towards it;
eventually found it
without your approving eye.
by Margaret Bednar, October 2, 2018
my contribution to "Imaginary Garden with Real Toads - Physics with Bjorn: Gravity & Space-Time curvature"
11 comments:
Empowering to have found the light in the absence of love. Powerful, in its short and resolute dictums.
-HA
I like it and the behavior of light reflection and absorbtion. An echo here of Mrs. Jim's love life, she was working somewhere in the bottom verse when she discovered me. She herself, her Lord, anf my buddy's girl friend found me, the light of her life. Your theme sort of reminds me of the kissing frogs game, many must be kissed?
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Sometimes the light we find on our own gives us the most warmth.
Strength has a way of finding hope on it's own. I love the questions this starts with Margaret. Thought provoking, beautiful and wise!!!
Exactly .. we have to bend the will to light... also like how you seem to have used the quote from Elie Wiesel:
"The Opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference...."
I too like the way you seem to have used the quote from Wiesel. And the "indifference was your tall shadow between me and the sun". I like the questios in the beginning and finding your own light on your own.
This is brilliant. Love the opposites attracting.
Teresa from Razzamadazzle
Indeed, to search and seek, to be in the darkness, or perhaps even worse, as posed here, indifference ... is hard, cruel ... but to learn to deal with the pain it brings, and see it as a gift, can be extremely empowering ... to find the light and discover one's own strength is actually more than what any other person can offer .... because when/if they leave, in whatever way, they take nothing from you - because what has been hard earned, learned, won and discovered for oneself, is not something that can ever be extinguished.
very powerful resolution in this poem :)
To bend one's will towards light...that's so fabulous if one knows how!
Beautiful imagery, Margaret, in the lines:
'Perhaps indifference was your tall shadow
between me and the sun,
my star dulled by your distance,
but not for long'.
Love and affection are not suppopsed to be a competition where one is the winner. Sadly over the years we have become consumers and consumables in an expendable world. Humanity is a crazy race of animals.
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