When it's over I want to say all my life I was a bride, married to amazement.
I was the bridegroom,
taking the world into my arms.
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.
When Death Comes
Mary Oliver