“the meaning of all that i believed before / escapes me in this world of none / i miss you more”

[larryhammer]

For Poetry Monday, more Millay -- because Millay.


Love Is Not All, Edna St. Vincent Millay (again)

Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink
Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain;
Nor yet a floating spar to men that sink
And rise and sink and rise and sink again;
Love can not fill the thickened lung with breath,
Nor clean the blood, nor set the fractured bone;
Yet many a man is making friends with death
Even as I speak, for lack of love alone.
It well may be that in a difficult hour,
Pinned down by pain and moaning for release,
Or nagged by want past resolution's power,
I might be driven to sell your love for peace,
Or trade the memory of this night for food.
It well may be. I do not think I would.


---L.

Subject quote from Afterglow, Genesis.