Pretty Song"

From the complications of loving you
I think there is no end or return.
No answer, no coming out of it.
Which is the only way to love, isnâ€™t it?

This isnâ€™t a play ground, this is
earth, our heaven, for a while.
Therefore I have given precedence
to all my sudden, sullen, dark moods

that hold you in the center of my world.
And I say to my body: grow thinner still.
And I say to my fingers, type me a pretty song.
And I say to my heart: rave on.

Mary Oliver

Mary Oliver

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