{"id":3689,"date":"2016-11-03T09:58:45","date_gmt":"2016-11-03T07:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johannapas.be\/core\/?p=3689"},"modified":"2016-11-03T10:03:41","modified_gmt":"2016-11-03T08:03:41","slug":"samhain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johannapas.be\/core\/samhain\/","title":{"rendered":"Samhain"},"content":{"rendered":"

When Death Comes
\nby Mary Oliver<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

When death comes
\nlike the hungry bear in autumn,
\nwhen death comes and takes all the bright coins from his purse<\/p>\n

to buy me, and snaps the purse shut;
\nwhen death comes
\nlike the measel-pox;<\/p>\n

when death comes
\nlike an iceberg between the shoulder blades,<\/p>\n

I want to step through the door full of curiosity, wondering:
\nwhat is it going to be like, that cottage of darkness?<\/p>\n

And therefore I look upon everything
\nas a brotherhood and a sisterhood,
\nand I look upon time as no more than an idea,
\nand I consider eternity as another possibility,<\/p>\n

and I think of each life as a flower, as common
\nas a field daisy, and as singular,<\/p>\n

and each name a comfortable music in the mouth,
\ntending, as all music does, toward silence,<\/p>\n

and each body a lion of courage, and something
\nprecious to the earth.<\/p>\n

When it’s over, I want to say: all my life
\nI was a bride married to amazement.
\nI was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.<\/p>\n

When it’s over, I don’t want to wonder
\nif I have made of my life something particular, and real.
\nI don’t want to find myself sighing and frightened,
\nor full of argument.<\/p>\n

I don’t want to end up simply having visited this world.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"tussen<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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