Thursday 2/25

LOVE POEMS! Can we see a trend to my favorite type of poems?


1034:
If this jewel thread of life
is to break, let it break:
living on
would be to endure
love's torment alone.

-Princess Shokushi


This is such a sad love poem! Looking at MJL's context of the first line, if you interpret them to mean life, that means that she's willing to just end her life so she doesn't have to go on living alone! That fact that she compares her life to jewel? That may mean that it is like a jewel in the fact that the speaker's life may be pretty, like a jewel, but it is cold. If you've ever held a jewel, they don't keep warmth at all, just like she isn't able to keep love =(