What Can Kill You [by Lera Auerbach]

WHAT CAN KILL YOU

No,
indifference
is not
the worst of it,
and it doesn’t equate
with loneliness.
After all
you choose
your feelings,
even though
it doesn’t seem
like a choice.
No, it’s not
your sloppy sense
of direction,
alienating attitudes
or unbearable shyness,
which is, in fact,
bearable,
it is something else
entirely,
like cancer or
a car crash and
it is somewhere else
where you lost it,
your crumbling sense
of perspective.

Comments

[Laura Orem]

Wow. Great poem. Thanks for posting!

[DL]

Terrific.

[Stacey]

Yes, I love this poem. It is amazing.

[Eric Bourland]

Kinda what I needed to read today.

[DL]

Love the picture, too.

[LA]

Thank you for your comments, these mean a lot to me.