The Diminishing Cadence
December 14th, 2008 at 5:16 pm (Thoughtful)
There is no connection between this and “Ticket the to Edge…”, other than the fact that they both deal with relationships and emotions. In this short poem, written in my early twenties, I was thinking about the contradiction that sometimes happens in relationships — that idea of being able to have really passionate and intense anger over the other partner’s behaviours whilst still (deep down) loving them all the same. I realise in older, educated, hindsight that you could also read this poem as a comment about the dynamics of domestic violence settings, although that certainly wasn’t intended at the time.
