catsunicornsandfeminism:And So It Ends by Victoria Sackville-WestAnd so it ends,We who were lovers m
catsunicornsandfeminism:And So It Ends by Victoria Sackville-WestAnd so it ends,We who were lovers may be friends.I have some weeks in which to steelMy heart and teach myself to feelOnly a sober tendernessWhere once was passion’s loveliness.I had not thought that there would comeYour touch to make our music dumb,Your meeting touch upon the stringThat still was vibrant, still could singWhen I impatiently might waitOr parted from you at the gate.You took me weak and unprepared.I had not thought that you who sharedMy days, my nights, my heart, my life,Would slash me with a naked knifeAnd gently tell me not to bleedBut to accept your crazy creed. You speak of God, but you have cut The one last thread, as you have shutThe one last door that open stoodTo show me still the way to God.If this be God, this pain, this evil,I’d sooner change and try the Devil. Darling, I thought of nothing mean;I thought of killing straight and clean.You’re safe; that’s gone, that wild caprice,But tell me once before I cease,Which does your Church esteem the kinder role,To kill the body or destroy the soul? -- source link
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