The Entanglement ("to My Mother")

[Katherine]

...I wrote this in that inspired moment at work!!!!

It was what Lorna posted that led to this, as well as my therapy session yesterday--

I want to be loved, held, cherished, adored-

But I want to be free of the darkness of your clinging possessiveness

that clambers up my legs like a black vine of torture,

entrapping me.

And yet I want to possess YOU!

I want all your love

to hold me safe

and true to living.

I don't want to die

through your possessive grasp

that grips me with death,

fills me with vomit,

and a longing for pure affection.

Through your greed

I became hugry and greedy

for love.

Love? Love is

"Strong",

Strong enough to hold my life,

me.

And not crumble on its childlike need

and strong spirit

and desire for truth.

I ran away from you

because you ran away from me.

But

with shackles around my feet

I could not run,

Nor with the grasping clawed hand

of defaced tenderness

pulling me back.

And so, in the only way I knew

I ran further and further away

Into an internal labyrinth,

a maze-like whirlpool of disappearance.

lorna

[Lauren]

Hey,

yea!

(((hugs))))

[Katherine]

thanks,

lorna :blush: