How can you say <br />earth should give me joy? Each thing <br />born is my burden; I cannot succeed <br />with all of you. <br /> <br />And you would like to dictate to me, <br />you would like to tell me <br />who among you is most valuable, <br />who most resembles me. <br />And you hold up as an example <br />the pure life, the detachment <br />you struggle to acheive-- <br /> <br />How can you understand me <br />when you cannot understand yourselves? <br />Your memory is not <br />powerful enough, it will not <br />reach back far enough-- <br /> <br />Never forget you are my children. <br />You are not suffering because you touched each other <br />but because you were born, <br />because you required life <br />separate from me.<br /><br />Louise Glück<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/early-darkness-2/
