Paper & poetry

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. 

(From "When Death Comes" by Mary Oliver) / for Dad