Where Does It Live By Erich – Love Poems
Where does it live?
In the house next to despair
Who are its kin?
Death and fear
Where will it go
when it does go?
No one knows
Where does it come from?
From very near or very far
How long will it stay?
If you’re lucky
as long as you live
What does it ask for you?
Nothing or everything
What does that mean?
That it’s one and the same
What does it give you
– or me – in return?
Exactly what it takes
It keeps back nothing
Does it keep you
– or me – prisoner
or does it set us free?
It can happen to us
that it gives us freedom
To be free of it
is that good or bad?
It is the worst
that can befall us
What is it really
and how can one define it?
They say that God said
he is it
Written By: Erich Fried
