Kamis, 09 Juni 2011

love is not all

love is not all. it is not meat nor drink.
nor slumber nor a roof against the rain.
nor yet a floating spar to men that sink.
a rise and sink and rise and sink again.
love cannot fiil the thickened lung with breath.
nor clean the blood. nor set the fractured bone.
yet many a man is making friend with death.
even is I speak. for lack of love alone.
it well may be that in a difficult hour.
pinned down by pain and maoning for release.
or nagged by want past resolution's power.
I might be driven to sell your love for peace.
or trade the memory of this night for food.
it well may be. I do not I would
by EDNA ST.VINCEN MILLAY  (1892-1950)