(Carver's grave inscription)
LATE FRAGMENT
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.
©L'uragana
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
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7 comments:
Lovely thought.
Ahh it is, isn't it?
beautiful inscription.. i would think that should be each of our innermost desire.. to love ourselves....
A little bittersweet to me.
I liked it. I liked this a lot.
Paisley, never even thought of self-love -- interesting. I thought only of being loved by others. Thanks for making me think...I reread and you're right. Funny what we miss sometimes....
SAW, really? I don't read it that way. I see it as someone leaving this world self-satisfied. But again, it's probably what I'm reading into it...that's why I love reading so much
Mel, hope it feeds your muse....did you ever read any of Carver's stuff??? I think you'd really dig it.
I always bawl my eyes out when I read this.He was such an amazing writer. *sob* There I go....
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