My heart sways

Theodore Roethke, in "The Dying Man", saying most of what I imagined I had to say. Meant to say. Only shorter, and rhyming:

"A man sees, as he dies,
Death's possibilities;
My heart sways with the world.
I am that final thing,
A man learning to sing."
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Published on July 03, 2014 14:48 Tags: art, death, theodore-roethke
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