How Far Is Far Enough?

Watch and Listen to a Reading of the Poem by me.

How far is far enough
and how long, too long already?
What is to be in love
for the puppeteer Destiny?
    

Is numbness a comfort
when your life starts to fall apart,
with no center to hold
or love to soothe your bleeding heart?
    

I have waged war
against my fate and lost
but not without
a precious lesson learned,
it is wiser
to hang onto things we have got
even when
life has left us too broken and burned!

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