Love
Mary Oliver
By Mary Oliver
When it's over, I want to say: all my life
I was a bride married to amazement.
I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.
When it is over, I don't want to wonder
if I have made of my life something particular, and real.
I don't want to find myself sighing and frightened, or full of argument.
I don't want to end up simply having visited this world.
What is one thing you can do this week to live a more engaged life?
Mary Oliver is an American poet who has won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize.