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.