Love

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.