Dear Joe:

What an amazing poem, thank you for sharing it here.

My thoughts:

“you have nothing- that i want- except- for you- to let me off the hook”- it is the hope of a helpless fish caught in a fisherman’s hook, to be let off. It is the only possibility for the fish to live. The very life of the fish is dependent on the fisherman. Nothing the fish can do.

“a tiny part of me- wants to believe- that you’re a person- just like me-…you’re not all that bad- even if your ugly side- is louder” When we hear that ugly side so loud, better not get close (again) so to hear the little sounds of beauty in underneath the shouts of ugliness.

“why can’t you see- that i don’t need you- to save me from my sins”- you … shouldn’t need him, but you believe you do, like the fish needs the fisherman to set it free.

“all i want- is freedom…my business-is with you- and you alone-…but all that i ask- is that
you bloody well listen” Freedom is what you need and your business is not with that person but with yourself, because unlike the fish, the power is not all with the fisherman.

anita