Growing old disgracefully

By GOD

DAISY, DAISY...

...I'm half crazy... but you knew that already, didn't you?

Crazed with a second day of sunshine, being all day with the bumble bees, the ladybirds and the first butterfly.  It's also the first day for a long time I have had nothing in my diary and could completely indulge myself in the garden, down on my knees in the grass, drinking it all in, being 'blessed and idle...tell me, what else should I have done? Doesn't everything die at last and too soon?'*


From Mary Oliver's The Summer Day'

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