RESPONSES: Thoughts on the failure of intimacy

	Souls may touch
	When fingers clasp
	or stand distant,
	isolated, beyond grasp. . .

	Hearts may melt
	when hands caress
	or freeze and harden
	forbidding closeness.

	when people embrace
	or recoil in fear
	afraid of kindred space -

	Intimacy
	is terrifying
	yet also
	a source of grace. 


Miok:   Touching: isn't it what we deeply want, yet also fear?

Chris:   (nodding) Yeah. Real closeness seems rare.

Cantara:  (peeved) The final line of this poem is almost unreadable.

Tim:   (to himself) Shouldn't we all write our own final lines?


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from Heart Scenes: Emotional Landscapes via Art, Poetry, & Prose by T Newfields
Summary: Some reflections about the beauty and terror of intimacy.
Keywords: love poetry, intimacy, failed relations

Author: T Newfields [Nitta Hirou / Huáng Yuèwǔ] (b. 1955 - ?)
Begun: 1994 in Shizuoka, Japan ☆ Finished: 2024 in Shizuoka, Japan
Creative Commons License: Attribution. {{CC-BY-4.0}} Granted

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