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Dignity (Other) by kthulah

Of course I love you! Is that not clear as day? I just don't feel that love is stable ground On which to base the dream of a pursuit The climax being but a haughty laugh. So let me love you gently from afar Without a need to selfishly acquire Without convincing you what I am worth For knowing mine already is enough. It is a given that if you were mine That I would treat you better than the rest But men, appreciation do not fire It is infatuation that they crave. So though I love you more than dignity My dignity preserved is more than naught.

<~> 23-Aug-02/9:35 AM
i will always love; i have never seen that fade. i differentiate between pride and dignity. for me, to hold myself up after the separation is all the dignity i can muster; pride never rears its head. i recognize that a man may choose to remain married, unhappily, if he feels that taking a mistress will harm his relationship with his children. i see that it would, for we began to posess each other. there would be not much left for them, if we had.... so, i allow him his choice, even though it is not mine. i love, i respect, i continue. maybe that is not at all what she meant when she wrote this; but it is what it meant to me when i read it.




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