15 March 2010

Sweetness


Often a sweetness comes
as if on loan, stays just long enough

to make sense of what it means to be alive,
then returns to its dark
source.  As for me, I don't care
where it's been, or what bitter road
it's traveled 
to come so far, to taste so good.

Stephen Dunn

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1 Comments:

At March 16, 2010 at 9:09 AM , Anonymous Sibley Saga .... said...

Bee-YUU-tee-ful boy!

 

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