Reason to Liveby David Matthews

I need a reason to live.
You would think
Les Enfants du paradis,
Mahler’s Fifth Symphony,
Blonde on Blonde, Hamlet,
Sunlight on water
The way Monet painted it
At Giverny,
Dinner, conversation,
A bottle of wine
With a friend...
You would think
Any one of these things
Would be enough
To take the next breath,
To take your breath away
Altogether . . .
Sometimes, I confess,
That next breath,
I do not know why I take it
At all. I just do not know.
I do know it is not enough
That breath be no more than instinct
Or to just wait around
For the end of things
To see how it will all turn out,
To see it through
An idle curiosity.
The darkness behind things
Is some days much
For the light to bear,
Even that light,
Water lilies
In your eyes,
Whose quiet beauty refuses
To abandon you or me or us.

Comments

[Daryl James]

Develops peaceful as a thought.

[kai]

"Water lilies
In your eyes,
Whose quiet beauty refuses
To abandon you or me or us."

it is very moving....