Clarity Is Something That I Savored

March 21, 2019

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is epitaphs.

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An epitaph for a woman who devoted her life to social change:

Clarity is something that I savored,

Lending reason to a worthy cause.

An uncommitted life is not worth living,

Relinquishing the claims for the rewards,

Embracing the illusions of the favored.

Remember me as one who never wavered,

Obeying stubbornly the highest laws,

Defending what had little chance of winning,

Not caring for the consequence, or giving

Even one brief glance at waiting jaws,

Yet loving well the world for which I labored.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Epitaphs

3/18: Bulldogs Don’t Let Go of What They’ve Got

3/19: Reason Is a Calling of the Heart

3/20: Unlike Some, to Me Death Was a Gift

3/21: Clarity Is Something That I Savored