It is a fearful thing to love
what death can touch.
A fearful thing to love,
hope, dream: to be --
to be, and oh! to lose.
A thing for fools this, and
a holy thing,
a holy thing to love.
For
your life has lived in me,
your laugh once lifted me,
your word was gift to me.
To remember this brings a painful joy.
'Tis a human thing, love,
a holy thing,
to love
what death has touched. –Chaim Stern
and this is the fullness of life.
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