comes – The Way I See It

comes – The Way I See ItTue, 21 Jan 2014 09:53:57 +0000enhourly1http://wordpress.com/https://s0.wp.com/i/buttonw-com.pngcomes – The Way I See ItExcerpt from the Poem ‘When Death Comes’/2014/01/21/excerpt-from-the-poem-when-death-comes//2014/01/21/excerpt-from-the-poem-when-death-comes/#respondTue, 21 Jan 2014 09:53:57 +0000/?p=708Continue reading →]]>by Mary Oliver

When it’s over, I want to say: all my life
I was a bride married to amazement.
I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.

When it is over, I don’t want to wonder
if I have made of my life something particular, and real.
I don’t want to find myself sighing and frightened,
or full of argument.

I don’t want to end up simply having visited this world.

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