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September 15-21, 2018
Ivy Lea
it is enormous, this thing before me immense above far restless waves unbent beneath relentless load I am so very small upon it dwarfed by enormities
intangible threat inhabits sturdy reassurance danger strolls hand-in-hand with safety death greets life along the abyss silent voices insistent cry “It would be so easy” and it would be
easy
so very easy it wouldn’t be very hard at all emptiness calls with gravitic insistence brilliant depths tempt surrender of steel embrace
infinity’s suddenly nearer door beguiles white knuckled, I clutch at the rail as far from the edge as can be
Beth and I were walking along the Ivy Lea Bridge in Gananoque on our way home from a vacation in New York (city & state); this poem was my response to the insistent pull of the void and my desperate clutching of the hand-rail, and walking as far as I could possibly be from the edge of an abyss which was relentlessly pulling me into its emptiness. My knuckles were truly white as my desire to live fought desperate with the void’s call to death.
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Ivy Lea A poem by Peter Rhebergen Download the book Each New Day a Miracle Bible Studies How to Study the Bible Life is Wonderful Photography Copyright 2024 About me |
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