Ellenelizabeth Cernek-Kashk is a resident of North Bergen NJ. She first started to love writing in sixth grade. Her teacher gave an assignment to write a poem and after reading Ellenelizabeth’s poem gave her a blank book and a new pen and told her never to stop writing. Ellenelizabeth is also a painter and photographer who enjoys combining art with her poetry. She has traveled extensively and has written about the places, cultures, and people that have touched her life. Her work has been published in The Rift, Wings Literary Magazine, and various online journals. Visit her blog.
New Accident
By Ellenelizabeth Cernek-Kashk
I refuse to write about …
Therefore I’ve not written?
I refuse to love you
Yet it was only in the beginning
I wanted my independence
Therefore you made me dependent
Upon you, need you
There has been many a fool
Who has loved me?
Yet I’ve been fool enough to believe
That love was not real
There is no definition
In any written known book
To define the pain of love
Or the reality of love
Or the destruction that love brings.
Emotionally I’m crushed
Which becomes even more painful
With each new accident
Of falling in love!
