Saturday, October 3, 2009

a bride...

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's 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.

- Mary Oliver

1 comment:

Gabriel Orcon said...

Just live! - I dropped my arms,
I dropped my burning forehead in my arms.
Thus, a young Tempest listens to God
Somewhere in a field, in some
gloomy hour.

And upon the high wave of my breathing
Imperious - as if from the sky -
a hand descends.
And someone’s lips descend on my lips.
- Thus God listens to a young Tempest.
Marina Tsvetaeva