How Will You Live Your Life Today? October 27, 2008
Posted by beholdthestars in Life & Living, Quotations.Tags: death, Mary Oliver, When Death Comes
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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, from the poem “When Death Comes”
You’ve read these lines from Mary Oliver. Now read them again. Let them take you wherever they take you.
How do these words affect the way you’ll live your life today?
Make a great day.
This is a wonderful poem. I think that we can all benefit from contemplating — not morbidly, but realistically — the certain end of our days. It helps us to come to grips with the need to live well today.