i love this poem


To love without attachment is 
too much like the real world 
Where they say nothing lasts 
forever 
That we're born and die alone 

So wouldn't it fix everything 
to hang onto something, 
like a person 
And make it ours for 
always 
To then escape this feeling 
that all there will ever be is me 
Oh deary deary, I love as attached to thee 

And wouldn't it be tragic 
to love as if we might go on without each other
to realize he won't lose himself, 
that she likes to make her own mind 
Isn't it better if we legitimize each other? 
Through something like fealty, 
we're in love with the leverage we gain 

And just like the person, 
So too the ideas, the beliefs 
Isn't it safer if we stick to them 
Wouldn't it work well 
if we built worlds
around them and lived there 
Because we're (un)comfortable here, 
we understand here 

In our beliefs, so also the self 
Let me hold on, dear life 
For just a little longer 
But one day 
Wouldn't it be wild 
What could it feel like 
To peel away 
the layers 
& find there is no centre  

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