Busy Busy

 It seems you love this world very much.

“Yes, I said. “This beautiful world.”

And you don’t mind the mind, that keeps you

busy all the time with its dark and bright wonderings?

“No, I’m quite used to it. Busy, busy,

all the time.”

And you don’t mind living with those questions,

I mean the hard ones, that no one can answer?

“Actually, they’re the most interesting.”

And you have a person in your life whose hand

you like to hold?

“Yes, I do.”

It must surely, then, be very happy down there

in your heart.

“Yes,” I said. “It is.”

~Mary Oliver, A Voice from I know not where