<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=389894" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Letter to My Lover After Seven Years</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">You gave me the child<br>that seamed my belly<br>& stitched up my life.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You gave me: one book of love poems,<br>five years of peace<br>& two of pain.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You gave me darkness, light, laughter<br>& the certain knowledge<br>that we someday die.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You gave me seven years<br>during which the cells of my body<br>died & were reborn.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now we have died<br>into the limbo of lost loves,<br>that wreckage of memories<br>tarnishing with time,<br>that litany of losses<br>which grows longer with the years,<br>as more of our friends<br>descend underground<br>& the list of our loved dead<br>outstrips the list of the living.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Knowing as we do<br>our certain doom,<br>knowing as we do<br>the rarity of the gifts we gave<br>& received,<br>can we redeem<br>our love from the limbo,<br>dust it off like a fine sea trunk<br>found in an attic<br>& now more valuable<br>for its age & rarity<br>than a shining new one?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Probably not.<br>This page is spattered<br>with tears that streak the words<br>lose, losses, limbo.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I stand on a ledge in hell<br>still howling for our love</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Erica+Jong">Erica Jong</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=389894" data-title="Letter to My Lover After Seven Years de Erica Jong" data-description="You gave me the child that seamed my belly & stitched up my life. You gave me: one book of love poems, five years of peace & two of pain. You gave me darkness, light, laughter & the certain knowledge that we someday die. You gave me seven years..."></div> </div> </div>

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