
‘I want you to walk with me.
I will try very hard
To cause you to like me,
To live as you do,
To do for you,
To be you, inside of me.’
‘We two are as one. That is what I see.
Let us go forth.
I will be your skin and your muscle. You will be my heart.’
‘I say we were the same as children,
But did not know it.
So I hold that we will be joined in dotage.
I will be for you in your growing old
And in your weakening. Let my bones
Be yours and lean on me.’
‘I will do for you what only I can do.
You will love me. Need me.
Want me. I will be as you are,
So that you will have no choice.
You and I, always together,
Thinking with a single mind,
Walking the same step.
They will not tell us apart.’
‘What is that you say?
You do not want me to be like you?
To be your all?
You do not want
To live in me and I in you?’
‘Then, I have not choice.
I will leave.’
Susan Patterson
04-2012
Recording of Desperate:
Discussion:
Again, the reader might think that it a story of adoration and devotion. One cannot actually tell. There is more than a hint of control with the first person. There is demand for a bonding of the two. There is a bending of the truth so that it presents more like the story he/she wants to have. There is an insistence of a desired type of relationship and it is simply too much. skp