Wednesday, June 27, 2012

How to Kill a Living Thing

Neglect it
Criticize it to its face
Say how it kills the light
Traps all the rubbish
Bores you with its green

Continually
Harden your heart
Then
Cut it down close
To the root as possible

Forget it
For a week or a month
Return with an axe
Split it with one blow
Insert a stone

To keep the wound wide open.

—Eibhlín Nic Eochaidh

4 comments:

  1. Wonderful! I loved it, did you write it yourself? If yes, then you have a talent...
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    1. No, it's by Eibhlín Nic Eochaidh.

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  2. Beautiful poem.

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  3. A lovely poem. Congratulations on the Liebster award. I got one too recently.

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