Posted by IsoM on March 25, 2002, at 12:10:56
In reply to Re: Too close? Kazoo? » kazoo, posted by Willow on March 25, 2002, at 11:37:29
Willow - I just HAVE to interject. You state what you can give in a relationship - "I can offer a hug, wipe a tear, lend an ear, and even give encouragement. But beyond that?"
What's wrong with that? It's so much - more than many people ever give or even want to give. ISympathy, empathy, & understanding count for so much. What makes your offer insufficient? I'm female, of course, but I'd have been overjoyed if my exhusband had even sometimes given me that much. It would've enabled me to except all the other things that were so difficult - he took but never gave.
I have a poem to offer you that I love & has comforted me:
A Night With a Wolf (by Bayard Taylor)
High on the lonely mountain
Where the wild men watched and waited;
Wolves in the forest, and bears in the bush,
And I on my path belated.The rain and the night together
Came down, and the wind came after,
Bending the props of the pine tree roof
And snapping many a rafter.I crept along in the darkness,
Stunned and bruised and blinded...
Crept to a fir with thick-set boughs,
And a sheltering rock behind it.There, from the blowing and raining,
Crouching I sought to hide me;
Something rustled,two green eyes shone,
And a wolf lay down beside me.His wet fur pressed against me;
Each of us warmed the other;
Each of us felt in the stormy dark
That beast and man was brother.And when the falling forest
No longer crashed in warning,
Each of us went from our hiding place
Forth in the wild wet morning.
poster:IsoM
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