I believe in kindness. Also in mischief. - Mary Oliver

I tell you this to break your heart, by which I mean only that it break open and never close again to the rest of the world.

Sometimes I dream
that everything in the world is here, in my room,
in a great closet, named and orderly,

and I am here too, in front of it,
hardly able to see for the flash and the brightness — and sometimes I am that madcap person clapping my hands and singing;
and sometimes I am that quiet person down on my knees.

I tell you this
to break your heart,
by which I mean only
that it break open and never close again
to the rest of the world.