A Love Song for a World: “Beyond Everything” by David Ignatow

Above Everything

By David Ignatow

 

I wished for death often,

But now that I am at its door

I have changed my mind about the world.

It should go on; it is beautiful,

even as a dream, filled with water and seed,

plants and animals, others like myself,

ships and buildings and messages

filling the air—a beauty,

if ever I have seen one.

In the next world, should I remember this one,

I will praise it,

above everything.

 

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