Adrienne Rich - For The Dead + Meme: Five People I Haven't Quite Forgotten (About)

[bloodrebel333]

For The Dead

Adrienne Rich

I dreamed I called you on the telephone
to say: Be kinder to yourself
but you were sick and would not answer

The waste of my love goes on this way
trying to save you from yourself

I have always wondered about the left-over
energy, the way water goes rushing down a hill
long after the rains have stopped

or the fire you want to go

Comments

[lavinialavender]

I dreamed you called me just to get ahold of Chris. I dreamed you were in my house and not looking at me. (Your dream does not seem outlandish. The last time you saw me I was crying.)

WHY did you stop talking to me? I emailed and IMed you and you didn't respond and then you wrote an entry sort of responding but it was so cold and it hurt and not understanding and your just not caring enough to tell me hurts worse of all. I'm tired of being hurt by you, I'm tired of you just stopping talking to me and I have no idea why and you won't tell me so I can avoid it. I don't want to make up just so I can keep wondering, keep having brilliant conversations and then nothing. Don't you understand what that feels like. So once again, if you don't want to talk to me then I won't beg, nothing will make me beg because we might make up and then the same thing will happen again

[moonix]

hello you. i don't know if you remember me, but i remember you. you sent me some beautiful, out-of-the-blue postcards. i don't think i ever returned them, because nothing ever felt special enough, and i'm sorry. there was talk of berlin as well, oh yes. i don't know what's happening in your life right now. i don't even know anything about you, really. but i would like to get in touch again, because you intrigue me, because. just because. would you even like to? would it be okay if i friended you on my new lj frequentlynot?

[bloodrebel333]

Anja! Of course I remember you. You wrote me one postcard back, a neat, dignified artistic handwriting and an equally quietly intense artistic card. Berlin felt oh so close.

Friended you, because. Glad you're back from wherever you were, glad you're back in my life.