Wednesday, June 24, 2009

The Fear That Love Brings

"I am too pure for you or anyone.
Your body
Hurts me as the world hurts God. I am a lantern—"
--Sylvia Plath, Fever 103°

Last night I found a note
That you wrote to me;
Marking a passage in "Fever 103°":

"Sammy,
I love you so much,
I will be yours 4ever,
Bee mine.
Love,
Lauren"

And I remembered that I
Never wanted you to be anything
Like Sylvia Plath.

(nor I like Ted Hughes.)


copyright 2006 Samuel Lewis Nelson

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