The Best of '… on Anything Really' 2011: The Tuesday Poem—"Knowing" (for Valentine's Day)

Knowing

You're lucky,

my mother said

in her long dying,

that you have

someone

who loves you.

So much left unsaid

about her life.

But she was right in this:

I am.     I do.

Wake every day

to your warm

breathing.

Wonder.

© Helen Lowe

Published in foam:e 1 March 2008

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Knowing was featured as the " … on Anything, Really" Tuesday Poem on February 15, here.

And in the year when we came to measure everything in these terms, just a week before the devastating February 22nd earthquake.