The Death of Marcus Aurelius

The Death of Marcus Aurelius

Tuesday, May 2, 2023

To Think of the Life of a Man


"To Think of the Life of a Man" 

Wendell Berry

In a time that breaks
in cutting pieces all around,
when men, voiceless
against thing-ridden men,
set themselves on fire, it seems
too difficult and rare
to think of the life of a man
grown whole in the world,
at peace and in place.
But having thought of it
I am beyond the time
I might have sold my hands
or sold my voice and mind
to the arguments of power
that go blind against
what they would destroy. 
I leave all that behind. 



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