Over the still world, a bird calls
waking solitary among black boughs.You wanted to be born; I let you be born.
When has my grief ever gotten
in the way of your pleasure?Plunging ahead
into the dark and light at the same time
eager for sensationas though you were some new thing, wanting
to express yourselvesall brilliance, all vivacity
never thinking
this would cost you anything,
never imagining the sound of my voice
as anything but part of you—you won’t hear it in the other world,
not clearly again,
not in birdcall or human cry,not the clear sound, only
persistent echoing
in all sound that means good-bye, good-bye—the one continuous line
that binds us to each other.
“End of Winter” by Louise Glück
(via growing-orbits)
(Source: poetryfoundation.org, via growing-orbits)
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