liveonearth: (chickadee in snow)
liveonearth ([personal profile] liveonearth) wrote2014-03-12 02:42 pm

Poem: Ask Me by William Stafford

Some time when the river is ice ask me
mistakes I have made. Ask me whether
what I have done is my life. Others
have come in their slow way into
my thought, and some have tried to help
or to hurt: ask me what difference
their strongest love or hate has made.

I will listen to what you say.
You and I can turn and look
at the silent river and wait. We know
the current is there, hidden; and there
are comings and goings from miles away
that hold the stillness exactly before us.
What the river says, that is what I say.

[identity profile] anais-pf.livejournal.com 2014-03-12 09:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Did you write this? I like it.

by William Stafford

[identity profile] liveonearth.livejournal.com 2014-03-13 04:43 am (UTC)(link)
I didn't know who wrote it when I posted it but I just looked it up, and I am beginning to recognize the style and flavor of Stafford. I like it too.