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From the complications of loving you
I think there is no end or return.
No answer, no coming out of it.
Which is the only way to love, isn’t it?
This isn’t a playground, this
earth, our heaven, for a while.
Therefore I have given precedence
to all my sudden, sullen, dark moments
that hold you in the center of my world.
And I say to my body: grow thinner still.
And I say to my fingers: type me a pretty song.
And I say to my heart: rave on.
— Mary Oliver, “A Pretty Song”
