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How Did Not Care

What does it mean to liveAs those beforeHave lived? A fieldOf boisterous menAnd woman who lift,Shouting, singing,And dancing a sheafOf wheat up to the sun.

When danced for joy,We guess he did not care.When playedThe Song of DegreesOn his lute, when he cried,"My bones call outFrom the depths," then we knowHe did not care.

For not to care is this:To love the orphansAnd the fatherless,To dance as we sinkInto the badger's grief,To let the resonatingBox of the body sound,Not to ask to be loved.

~ Bly ~

(Meditations on the Insatiable Soul)

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