Keeping Things Whole
"In a field
I am the absence
of field.
This is
always the case.
Wherever I am
I am what is missing.
When I walk
I part the air
and always
the air moves in
to fill the spaces
where my body's been.
We all have reasons
For moving.
I move
To keep things whole."
-- by Mark Strand
I feel like this sums me up so well. I distance from loved ones to avoid messing up their lives. I feel like a black hole that could suck all the goodness into myself and my depression so I try to move lightly through the world. If I can't be whole, I at least don't want to stop others from being whole.