Your Fear Is Not Surprising

Music: Caccia. Sequenced by Julio Feliz.

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Your fear is not surprising. It's always ended badly: Fury, betrayals, recriminations. Then, for days and weeks and months An agony worse than grief Because you also feel like such a fool. Love is like diving or rock climbing: Spectacular, but your heart sticks in your mouth Every moment you're there. There's an ease in not caring, A looseness in the belly. Then, as love approaches, a knot tightens like a snake. Being alone and free is like looking in from outside: People give and get affection, Are seized by extraordinary happiness and pain, Live in prison and in heaven, Deal with the necessity of working on what must be worked out, While you watch them as if they were on TV. Life is full of love and difficulty. Its riches cannot be gotten at except through choice. You must enter it by loving this person or that person, And people inevitably fall short of your hopes. But to live and not love, and not be loved, Is like spending your entire life alone in your room.