The Neatest Trick One may quibble But the second neatest trick Appears to be that suffering Is something we can’t do without, A foretaste, as it were, of inescapable Demise, The necessary price of joy There’s no dispute, however, That the neatest one of all Has been to make us think That we are most alive and well When others take the Fall ________________________________________________________________________ Emanuel E. García, Sinking In, One Hundred Poems, 2013 |