PICK UP THIS life of mine from the dust. Keep it under your eyes, in the palm of your right hand. Hold it up in the light, hide it under the shadow of death; keep it in the casket of the night with your stars, and then in the morning let it find itself among flowers that blossom in worship.
YOU HAVE drunk the draught of songs that I poured for you, and accepted the garland of my woven dreams. My heart straying in the wilderness was ever touched by the pain that was your own touch. When my days are done, my leave-taking hushed in a final silence, my voice will linger in the autumn light and rain-laden clouds with the message that we had met.