"There Is No Going Back," Wendell Berry

"Raven Tree," Caspar David Friedrich
                   
No, no, there is no going back.
Less and less you are
that possibility you were.
More and more you have become
those lives and deaths
that have belonged to you.
You have become a sort of grave
containing much that was
and is no more in time, beloved
then, now, and always.
And so you have become a sort of tree
standing over the grave.
Now more than ever you can be
generous toward each day
that comes, young, to disappear
forever, and yet remain
unaging in the mind.
Every day you have less reason
                                                             not to give yourself away.

1 comment:

  1. Beautiful. The words and painting. Something more to tuck into my mind before my time is done.

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