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BROKEN GLASS
(1989)
Around me lie the shards
Of a wonderful life
It's too hard
I pick up this piece
It's a child, now taken flight
That piece, a friend
Who no longer writes
A once-new song
Now out of date, forgotten
How easy to conclude
That life is rotten

I am filled with broken glass
Handle me gently
For I am too full of the past
Undigested, too fulfilled
To find the present bearable

Too ready to sleep
Too willing to weep
Unable to keep
Always to the regimen
Of today
Right now
Tomorrow's yesterday

It will be a long time
Before I can live for the moment
I carry a burden of past happiness
That is too heavy
I cannot lay it down
I cannot have done
Because I have too many yesterdays
I have too many tomorrows
To choose just one

You cannot see me properly
Because you love me
You look at my fragments
As through a kaleidoscope
And talk to me of patterns

If I look at my world through your eyes
I will not look for myself
And I will learn to pick up the pieces
(All the King's horses
And all the King's men
Couldn't do what the hen
Did in the first place)

Love, forgive me
You should be my goal
For that you need your lover young
And whole

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from Love Unbidden - love poems for Irene, released June 26, 2020

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Peggy is one of the most influential folk singers on either side of the Atlantic. She is Pete Seeger’s half-sister and Ruth Crawford Seeger’s daughter; her first life partner was the English songwriter Ewan MacColl, who wrote First Time Ever I Saw Your Face for her. She has made more than 22 solo recordings to date. Please check ewanmaccoll.bandcamp.com for other albums featuring Peggy. ... more

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