Love Comes Quietly by Robert Creeley
Love Comes Quietly
Robert CreeleyLove comes quietly,
finally, drops
about me, on me,
in the old ways.What did I know
thinking myself
able to go
alone all the way.
MARGINALIA
1.
I thought I could do it, you know. Go at it alone, I mean. All the way to the end. I thought I’d be fine, considering. I thought it is something one gets used to. I thought at some point I have convinced myself that it is how life is. It is what it is.
2.
Ah, how foolish I was. What did I know all this time.
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This poem appeared in For Love: Poems 1950-1960 by Robert Creeley, published by Charles Scribner's Sons, 1959.
ABOUT ROBERT CREELEY
Robert Creeley was born in Arlington, Massachusetts, on May 21, 1926. He attended Harvard University from 1943 to 1946. In 1946, he published his first poem, in the Harvard magazine Wake. Creeley published more than sixty books of poetry including If I Were Writing This (2003); Just in Time: Poems 1984–1994 (2001); Life & Death (1998); Echoes (1994); Selected Poems 1945–1990 (1991); Memory Gardens (1986); Mirrors (1983); The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1945–1975 (1982);… (more)
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T
You are beautiful. This made me cry. I am mostly at 1. (So tired.) A sliver of hope still exists for a possibility of 2. I have been praying for it to dissipate but, it remains, and it wounds me.
T.
Oh my dearest—I understand only too well the exhaustion and the bittersweet nature of holding onto hope. It’s a complex and often painful place to be.
Please know that you’re not alone in this journey. Sometimes, that sliver of hope, as fragile as it may seem, can be a source of strength. Sending you so much love.
Take gentle care of yourself.
T.