Responsibility vs Love

Like Atlas, I bear
the world’s weight
call it responsibility –
a painful delusion
requiring walls

Life has its own rhythm –
light and dark,
joyous and sorrowful –
orchestration outside
of my domain

Love, however,
is limitless
in its capacity –
open-hearted acceptance
protection in itself.

Trading one focus
for another
permits appreciation –
I vow to assert love
and forgo control.

Advertisement

Published by

VJ

Permission to write, paint, and imagine are the gifts I gave myself when chronic illness hit - a fair exchange: being for doing. Relevance is an attitude. Humour essential.

33 thoughts on “Responsibility vs Love”

  1. OMG VJ ~ students were asking me yesterday what I meant by ‘control’ in my TEDx talk and I explained the concept of LOCUS of control (interval / external) by Dr. Julian Rotter. And this is the essence of your poem. That pull / push of suffocating responsibility vs infinite possibility — that lives within each of us. The key is deciding which wolf to feed. .. ♥️ p.s. I am always transported deeper by your poems.

    Liked by 1 person

  2. As always thought provoking. I enjoyed yours and Ivor20 communication – and agree that no one warned us about the ageing process….although even with warning…we would never have understood….Like all things we have to live it to know. Thank you…Janet.

    Liked by 1 person

  3. I like this…you are right the weight we all carry around is an unnecessary burden, why do we humans complicate everything?? Didn’t someone once say…..Love is all we need.

    Liked by 1 person

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. Log Out /  Change )

Connecting to %s

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.