Saturday, April 23, 2011

Today


(Daniel Hoffman, poet laureate, 1973-1974)

TODAY

Today the sun rose, as it used to do
When its mission was to shine on you.
Since in unrelenting dark you're gone,
What now can be the purpose of the sun?

~ Daniel Hoffman, born 1923, American poet and essayist
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