Not sure if I’ll keep this poetry posting up but…
I found this when looking through my books for wedding ceremony poems.
"won't you celebrate with me"
Lucille Clifton was much honored on the east coast poetry circuit where I studied in graduate school.
Click the link to read the full poem:
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=181377
Wow! What resilience!
"what i have shaped into
a kind of life? i had no model.…
what did i see to be except myself?
i made it up
here on this bridge between
starshine and clay,
my one hand holding tight
my other hand; come celebrate
with me that everyday
something has tried to kill me
and has failed."
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