Sharing: The Secret by Denise Levertov

I just wanted to share a poem that really got to me today. Enjoy!

 

The Secret

by Denise Levertov

 

 

Two girls discover

the secret of life

in a sudden line of

poetry.

 

I who don’t know

the secret

wrote the line. They

told me

 

(through a third person)

they had found it

but not what it was

not even

 

what line it was. No doubt

by now, more than a week

later, they have forgotten

the secret,

 

the line, the name of

the poem.  I love them

for finding what

I can’t find,

 

and for loving me

for the line I wrote

and for forgetting it

so that

 

a thousand times, till death

finds them, they may

discover it again, in other

lines

 

in other

happenings. And for

wanting to know it,

for

 

assuming there is

such a secret, yes,

for that,

most of all.