“We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand―and melting like a snowflake.”
― Sir Francis Bacon
And when life's sweet fable ends,
Soul and body part like friends;
No quarrels, murmurs, no delay;
A kiss, a sigh, and so away.
--Richard Crashaw
Good-bye M, Good-bye. It hurts so much. I miss you so. I should have helped you. I should have. I should have.
"Now
that I have toiled and strayed so far over the world, am I to sleep,
and let the earth cover my head forever? Let my eyes see the sun until
they are dazzled with looking. Although I am no better than a dead man, still let me see the light of the sun."
~ Gilgamesh
"All living creatures born of the flesh shall sit at last in the boat of the West, and when it sinks, they are gone."
~ Gilgamesh
Wet in the windy counties of the dawn
The lone crow skirls his draggled passage home:
And God (whose sparrows fall aslant his gaze,
Like grace or confetti) blinks and he is gone.
~ Thomas McGrath
I measure every grief I meet
With analytic eyes;
I wonder if it weighs like mine,
Or has an easier size.
I wonder if it hurts to live,
And if they have to try,
And whether--could they choose between--
It would not be to die.
--Emily Dickinson
I am the chosen no hand saves
--Louise Bogan
Of course I prayed--
and did God care?
He cared as much as if in the air
a bird had cried 'Give me,'
and stamped her foot!
--Emily Dickinson
