And did you get what
you wanted from this life, even so?
I did.
And what did you want?
To call myself beloved, to feel myself
beloved on the earth.
"Late Fragment" by Raymond Carver, from A New Path to the Waterfall. © Atlantic Monthly Press, 1989.Curator's note: This is the final poem in Carver's last published work, a collection written when he was dying of cancer.
Art credit: "Wishin’ and hopin’ and thinkin’ and prayin," photograph by unknown photographer (originally black and white).
This will be my funeral poem, because I am that lucky, to have loved and been beloved on this earth.
ReplyDeletewithin a few moments after my Momma took her last breath in this life...a smile appeared on her face...even when the Hospice nurse came to the house she commented on it as well....I like to think it was this...she was beloved by so many....
ReplyDelete".....and did you get what you wanted from this life, even so? I did. And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth..."
5 feb 2009