When death comes
\nlike the hungry bear in autumn
\nwhen death comes and takes all the bright coins from his purse<\/p>\n
to buy me, and snaps his purse shut;
\nwhen death comes
\nlike the measle pox;<\/p>\n
when death comes
\nlike an iceberg between the shoulder blades,<\/p>\n
I want to step through the door full of curiosity, wondering;
\nwhat is it going to be like, that cottage of darkness?<\/p>\n
And therefore I look upon everything
\nas a brotherhood and a sisterhood,
\nand I look upon time as no more than an idea,
\nand I consider eternity as another possibility,<\/p>\n
and I think of each life as a flower, as common
\nas a field daisy, and as singular,<\/p>\n
and each name a comfortable music in the mouth
\ntending as all music does, toward silence,<\/p>\n
and each body a lion of courage, and something
\nprecious to the earth.<\/p>\n
When it’s over, I want to say: all my life
\nI was a bride married to amazement.
\nI was a bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.<\/p>\n
When it’s over, I don’t want to wonder
\nif I have made of my life something particular, and real.
\nI don’t want to find myself sighing and frightened
\nor full of argument.<\/p>\n
I don’t want to end up simply having visited this world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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