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until she knew she’d already lost everything
except desire, the red heft of it
warming her outstretched palm.
~Rita Dove
Life's spell is so exquisite, everything conspires to break it.
Emily Dickinson
The urge to live is always this indomitable force buffeted by situations that continuously tries to undermine it but that spark burns in all of us .. all consuming.
I read somewhere that this poem is about Adam and Eve, consciousness and desire - the curiosity that propels us to explore , to go beyond mundane , to ignore all well and ill-meaning whispers , endure suffering , open the Pandora's box because ... that is what living is .. true living!