Thomas Verny

Thomas R. Verny, MD, (www.trvernymd.com) is a psychiatrist, writer, lecturer and academic, co-founder of the Pre and Perinatal Psychology tradition in the early 80’s. Verny is the author of seven books and over 44 scientific papers, a published poet, and the co-recipient of the 2009 Living Institute Cultural Innovator Award.

Cordless  

I.

Do you remember
when your blood was her blood,
when your feelings were her feelings,
when your thoughts were her thoughts,
when you were one?

Then with one cut
your world changed:
abandoned and separated,
freed and liberated,
programmed like a moth
to forever thirst for the light,
yearning and searching
for what was lost,
escaping the shackles and chains
that imprison and constrain.

The tightrope walker
balances gingerly
in  thin air
poised
between heaven and earth
his long pole wing-like,
almost flying.

Icarus, the ancient astronaut
sick of his cruel world
on waxed wings flew
towards the sun--
so warm, so bright,
so inviting, so easily
mistaken for love.

It was not the first time
nor the last time

that a man
was flamed by love.

II.

The
discord
of
the
cut
cord

dooms
us
to
desire

what
we
cannot
attain.

III.

Though we can orbit the earth
and fly to the moon,
no rocket or supersonic plane
can still this pain
of lost love.