Bequest
Bequest, a short poem by Emily Dickinson, turns a loved one's death into an inheritance of two strange gifts. The speaker is left a love so immense that even a Heavenly Father would accept it, and a vast, sea-wide boundary of pain. In just eight lines, grief becomes a measured distance between time and eternity, between the one who remains and the one who has gone. Quiet, aching and precise.
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