when I find myself in times of trouble Mother Mary comes to me, speaking words of wisdom...
Listen—are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?
Tell me,
what is it you plan to do
with your one
wild and precious life?
Love yourself. Then forget it.
Then, love the world.
Love sorrow. She is yours now, and you must
take care of what has been
given.
When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement.
I wanted to know,
whoever I was, I was
alive
for a little while.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
I thought the earth remembered me,
she took me back so tenderly,
I want to be improbable, beautiful and afraid of nothing,
as though I had wings.
it is a serious thing just tobe alive on this fresh morning in this broken world