Line Breaks & Other Violent Crimes

hmhpoetry:

Nobel Prize winner Wislawa Szymborska passed away today, at 88 years old. She says it best herself:

A Note 

Life is the only way 
to get covered in leaves, 
catch your breath on the sand, 
rise on wings; 

to be a dog, 
or stroke its warm fur; 

to tell pain 
from everything it’s not; 

to squeeze inside events, 
dawdle in views, 
to seek the least of all possible mistakes. 

An extraordinary chance 
to remember for a moment 
a conversation held 
with the lamp switched off; 

and if only once 
to stumble upon a stone,
end up soaked in one downpour or another, 

mislay your keys in the grass; 
and to follow a spark on the wind with your eyes; 

and to keep on not knowing 
something important. 

RIP.

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