1. apoetreflects:

    Sometimes you love someone
    so much you have to leave them
    alone with their memories of
    how love’s become whatever
    it is & leave it at that, leave
    it left in order to leaf it &
    flutter in the wind the way leaves
    leave trees & like trees leave
    leaves; mute like light in a
    rakish, unsorted sort of way …

    sometimes you love someone
    so much you have to leave them loved.

    —Al Young, from “Winter Leaves” in Heaven: Collected Poems 1956-1990 (Creative Arts Book Company, 1992)

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