ask me …
“Ask me whether what I have done is my life.”
Wonderful.
Ask me
Some time when the river is ice ask me
mistakes I have made. Ask me whether
what I have done is my life. Others
have come in their slow way into
my thought, and some have tried to help
or to hurt: ask me what difference
their strongest love or hate has made.
I will listen to what you say.
You and I can turn and look
at the silent river and wait. We know
the current is there, hidden; and there
are comings and goings from miles away
that hold the stillness exactly before us.
What the river says, that is what I say.
(William Stafford 1914-1993)
Three people pose on the riverbank in front of the Boyds Bay ferry, Tweed River District, ca. 1928 Australian. public domain
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