The Love of the Mother, the Pained, and the Cat
- after Alicia Ostriker
To love,
said the mother,
is to be all things
as n eeded
even when unfelt
for myself.
To love,
said the pained,
is to never have
been
before harm comes
to the beloved.
To love,
said the cat,
is to lie down,
close eyes softly,
purr asleep
and smile.
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