Just let me have a bleeding heart<\/p>\n
For those who die alone<\/p>\n
In times of corona.<\/p>\n
I would like to be with each of them<\/p>\n
To die with each of them<\/p>\n
So they are not alone.<\/p>\n
**<\/p>\n
For what is and should not be<\/p>\n
Is not one\u2019s pain<\/p>\n
Is not one\u2019s dying<\/p>\n
But one\u2019s abandonment<\/p>\n
To die alone.<\/p>\n
**<\/p>\n
So let me be with you.<\/p>\n
I am your family and friends<\/p>\n
Your wife who died a while ago<\/p>\n
Your dog, your memories<\/p>\n
Your days at the beach when all was well<\/p>\n
So you are not alone.<\/p>\n
**<\/p>\n
As always in suffering<\/p>\n
I wonder Where is God?<\/p>\n
Did He forget in a blink of His eye<\/p>\n
This little planet<\/p>\n
Somewhere in His universe?<\/p>\n
Or may He be with you<\/p>\n
And also die with you<\/p>\n
So you are not alone.<\/p>\n
*****<\/p>\n
One shouldn\u2019t analyze a poem. Also, it should not need to be analyzed. A good poem speaks for itself. What it says cannot be put in prose. Otherwise, it would be better to, indeed, put it in prose.<\/p>\n
So, these are just some thoughts of mine<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Looking at statistics, people \u2013 including me \u2013 tend to think of numbers. After a while, a dead person is a dead person. Stars keep on shining. The earth will make its circles around the sun for a while longer. There will be many more deaths.<\/p>\n
But this comes different to me. Maybe also to you.<\/p>\n
This is about many people presently dying in loneliness. It has probably never happened before on such a scale.<\/p>\n
Who can get over it? Who wants to get over it? Is it right to even want to get over it?<\/p>\n
Each person can only talk for himself. I can imagine dying in loneliness but will only know it at the end. Still, I want to make a difference between \u2018alone\u2019 and \u2018lonely.\u2019 That might bring some comfort.<\/p>\n
One can die alone and yet not be lonely.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The former is physical. The latter is meaningful. Although in the human case, both are intertwined, one can focus a while on the difference in exceptional circumstances. The present may be one. There is no choice in many cases.<\/p>\n
Being lonely is being devoid of deepest contact. Being in physical contact is not necessary<\/em> for deepest contact. It is a symbolic happening. It is vertical. In principle, the vertical can exist even without the horizontal. I hope you are following me.<\/p>\n
The horizontal can also exist without the vertical. One can be surrounded by people and be lonely.<\/p>\n
One can be alone and not be lonely if one feels connected-by-soul (or anything else you want to call it). This being connected-by-soul can be intense. Every human being may have felt this at least once.<\/p>\n
This extraordinary time may be an occasion to remember this.<\/p>\n
In a way, it lifts the subject of the poem.<\/p>\n
There is, of course, no magic involved. One can be perfectly rational and yet remember this.<\/p>\n
It happens to be Easter at the time of writing.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Catholics remember Jesus\u2019 dying on the cross, in loneliness. Even His last words contain the experience. It\u2019s a beautiful poetic story. It is not Catholic. It is universal.<\/p>\n
And the resurrection? That\u2019s a different story.<\/p>\n
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