Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Tactic and Strategy

                     
My tactic is
to look at you
to learn how you are
to love you as you are


my tactic is
to talk to you
and to listen to you
to build with words
an indestructible bridge

my tactic is
to remain in your memories
I don't know how
nor
with what pretext
but to remain with you

my tactic is
to be frank
and to know that you're frank
and not to sell to ourselves
simulations
so that between us
there is no curtain
nor abyss

my strategy is
in contrast
deeper and
more simple

my strategy is
that one of these days
I don't know how
nor
with what pretext
you finally
need me.

~ by Mario Benedetti
 

3 comments:

  1. Even if that worked, would you really want that?

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  2. want what ? to be the one writing the poem or being written to ?

    either ways, its a pretty pathetic state to be in. love always begets guilt. probably knowing that, i could avoid falling in the trap.

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  3. To be the one writing it..its not hard to make a person need you is it? But then you would have to live with the thought that you created that need for yourself..There will always be a 'what if' somewhere..

    Yes, its a very very pathetic state to be in.

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