Water is H2O, hydrogen two parts, oxygen one, but there is also a third thing that makes water,
and nobody knows what that is.

–D. H. Lawrence



Saturday, September 18, 2021

love is always too much

 



  


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Like the water
of a deep stream,

love is always too much.


We did not make it.

Though we drink till we burst,
we cannot have it all,

or want it all.


In its abundance
it survives our thirst.


In the evening 
we come down to the shore

to drink our fill,


and sleep,
while it flows

through the regions of the dark.


It does not hold us,
except we keep returning 
to its rich waters


thirsty.

We enter,
willing to die,

into the commonwealth 
of its joy. 


—Wendell Berry




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