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Pastimes : A Poetry Corner

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To: Merritt who wrote (74)9/6/1998 10:24:00 PM
From: Mephisto   of 1582
 
A Bitterness

I believe you did not have a happy life
I believe you were cheated.
I believe your best friends were loneliness and misery.
I believe your busiest enemies, were anger and depression.
I believe joy was a game you could never play without stumbling.
I believe comfort, though you craved it, was forever a stranger.
I believe music had to be melancholy or not at all.
I believe no trinket, no precious metal, shone so bright as
..your bitterness.
I believe you lay down at last in your coffin none the wiser and
..unassuaged.
Oh. cold and dreamless under the wild, amoral, reckless, peaceful
..flowers of the hillsides.

by Mary Oliver

When I am down-in-the dumps, I like to read Oliver's poem. I hope it helps.

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