When it's over I don't want to wonder
If I have made of my life something particular, and real.
I don't want to find myself sighing and frightened,
or full of argument.
I don't want to end up simply having visited this world.

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Oliver, Mary. "When Death Comes." New and Selected Poems. Beacon Press, 1992, I. 24.

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