Pflücke den Tag. Quotes

“Before my last breath is drawn
and the curtain falls
and the last flower falls on me
I want to live
to love
to be

In this grey world
and time of catastrophe
this hostile existence
with people who need me
and whom I nee
I would learn to value
to discover
to be astonished

I want to learn who I am
who I can be
who I would like to be
so that the days don’t go unused
the hours have goals
and the minutes value

Whenever I laugh or cry
or am silent
on my journey to you
to myself
to God
where the ways
are uneven and thorny
and scarcely known to me
I want to set out
have already embarked
and don’t want to turn back now
without having seen
the blooming of flowers
or heard the rippling of waters
having been amazed
for life is beautiful

Then Friend Death may come
and I can say I have lived

Translated by Katharine Fournier”
― Margot Bickel, Pflücke den Tag.