everything, if I have been a fatalist,
and have been a pessimistic child
who awaits death every day, and who
almost seeks it out, if I have opened
myself slowly and late to happiness,
and if I am still a somber man,
incapable of laughing whole-
heartedly, it is because you left me
that June 24th upon that road.
But if I have believed in eternal
realities...if I have thrust myself
toward them, it is also because I was
alone, because you were no longer
there to be my God, to fill my heart
with your abundant and dominating
life.
darren dugan
(Darren Dugan)
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