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I cannot live with You -- by Emily Dickinson

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    I cannot live with You -- by Emily Dickinson


    I cannot live with You --
    It would be Life --
    And Life is over there --
    Behind the Shelf

    The Sexton keeps the Key to --
    Putting up
    Our Life -- His Porcelain --
    Like a Cup --

    Discarded of the Housewife --
    Quaint -- or Broke --
    A newer Sevres pleases --
    Old Ones crack --

    I could not die -- with You --
    For One must wait
    To shut the Other's Gaze down --
    You -- could not --

    And I -- Could I stand by
    And see You -- freeze --
    Without my Right of Frost --
    Death's privilege?

    Nor could I rise -- with You --
    Because Your Face
    Would put out Jesus' --
    That New Grace

    Glow plain -- and foreign
    On my homesick Eye --
    Except that You than He
    Shone closer by --

    They'd judge Us -- How --
    For You -- served Heaven -- You know,
    Or sought to --
    I could not --

    Because You saturated Sight --
    And I had no more Eyes
    For sordid excellence
    As Paradise

    And were You lost, I would be --
    Though My Name
    Rang loudest
    On the Heavenly fame --

    And were You -- saved --
    And I -- condemned to be
    Where You were not --
    That self -- were Hell to Me --

    So We must meet apart --
    You there -- I -- here --
    With just the Door ajar
    That Oceans are -- and Prayer --
    And that White Sustenance --
    Despair --
    اللھم صلی علٰی محمد وعلٰی آل محمد کما صلیت علٰی ابراھیم وعلٰی آل ابراھیم انک حمید مجید۔
    اللھم بارک علٰی محمد وعلٰی آل محمد کما بارکت علٰی ابراھیم وعلٰی آل ابراھیم انک حمید مجید۔

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