The Secret by Denise Levertov

The Secret
By Denise Levertov

Two girls discover
the secret of life
in a sudden line of
poetry.

I who don't know the
secret wrote
the line. They
told me

(through a third person)
they had found it
but not what it was
not even

what line it was. No doubt
by now, more than a week
later, they have forgotten
the secret,

the line, the name of
the poem. I love them
for finding what
I can't find,

and for loving me
for the line I wrote,
and for forgetting it
so that

a thousand times, till death
finds them, they may
discover it again, in other
lines

in other
happenings. And for
wanting to know it,
for

assuming there is
such a secret, yes,
for that
most of all.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Dear Poems
By Marion

Dear Poems:
You give me sustenance,
breath
heartbeat.

You give my life
color,
depth,
dimension.

You are, I know,
my raison d'etre &
my silence amidst
chaos

I love you.

6/29/08