The Summer Day

….I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down

into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass,

how to be  idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields,

which is what I have been doing all day.

Tell me, what else should I have done?

Doen’t everything die at last , and too soon?

Tell what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? ~ Mary Oliver,