Poem: Since Feeling is First

Life is funny sometimes. We don't realize that there are many people, some friends, some perfect strangers, that are living amazing, poignant, beautiful, brave stories... Maybe what I mean to say is that life is funny all of the time, but we're blind to it.

But for today, open your eyes. Because life is funny, short and sweet, terrible and beautiful. And worth reveling in.

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since feeling is first
who pays any attention
to the syntax of things
will never wholly kiss you;


wholly to be a fool
while Spring is in the world


my blood approves,
and kisses are a better fate
than wisdom
lady i swear by all flowers. Don't cry
- the best gesture of my brain is less than
your eyelids' flutter which says


we are for each other; then
laugh, leaning back in my arms
for life's not a paragraph


And death i think is no parenthesis


- e. e. cummings