This is a very grown up poem. It acknowledges that we will die and suggests an attitude of wholehearted living, a joyful embracing of life and of our relationships with the earth and the creation, an openness to experience and creativity that makes it all worthwhile. Life will not be wasted if we live fully until we die, proclaiming that we believe in life before death as well as after. When we die having lived such a life, life to the full and running over, then we will know ‘I have’ indeed ‘made of my life something particular, and real’. May this be true for me and for each one of us .
On Nov 9, 2022 Alison Tyler wrote :