February 28, 2007

Excerpt

To live in this world
you must be able
to do three things:
to love what is mortal;
to hold it
against your bones knowing
your own life depends on it;
and, when the time comes to let it go,
to let it go.

"the blackwater woods" - Mary Oliver

1 comment:

like_cyrano said...

tell me about it.

I have and continue to love a person who is acutely finite to me. Almost every day for one reason or another I fear she may slip away from me. In fact I think I've had the opportunity to hold her against my bones in saying goodbye maybe three times which to me feels three times too many.

I ache for her and the day she will stay with me until nature dictates it is time to let her go.

I fear that day will never come

'she's the tear that hangs inside my soul forever' - jeff buckley