Thursday, August 5, 2010

The Life That I Have...

"The life that I have
Is all that I have
And the life that I have
Is yours

The love that I have
Of the life that I have
Is yours and yours and yours

A sleep I shall have
A rest I shall have
Yet death will be but a pause
For the peace of my years
In the long green grass
Will be yours and yours
and yours." -Leo Marks

I love this poem. And, I had completely forgotten about it. I believe I first read it when my poetry class at the U focused a unit completely on love poetry.

Then I was reading about Chelsea Clinton's wedding last weekend and saw that the bride and groom read it as part of the ceremony. Cool! It's an awesome poem!

Leo Marks, an English cryptographer, composed the poem on Christmas Eve in 1943. It is said that Marks wrote it in memory of a girlfriend, Ruth, who was killed in a plane crash in Canada.