You can’t have it all (a poem and a remembrance)

In reading this remembrance of a dear friend of Maria Popova, I was struck by  this poem, You Can’t Have It All by Barbara Ras. It starts:

YOU CAN’T HAVE IT ALL

But you can have the fig tree and its fat leaves like clown hands
gloved with green. You can have the touch of a single eleven-year-old finger
on your cheek, waking you at one a.m. to say the hamster is back.

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Click on the link and read the poem and the remembrance, too. May we all be remembered so well.