A Short TestamentWhatever harm I may have done In all my life in all your wide creation If I cannot repair it I beg you to repair it, And then there are all the wounded The poor the deaf the lonely and the old Whom I have roughly dismissed As if I were not one of them. Where I have wronged them by it And cannot make amends I ask you To comfort them to overflowing, And where there are lives I may have withered around me, Or lives of strangers far or near That I've destroyed in blind complicity, And if I cannot find them Or have no way to serve them, Remember them. I beg you to remember them When winter is over And all your unimaginable promises Burst into song on death's bare branches. Anne Porter
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William Shakespeare said: "A Short Testament" is the best way to remember people who are not with us anymore. A Short Testament helps us to remember the people that we love, the people that we have harmed, and the people that we can serve. There are many lives that we may have ruined or lives of strangers far or near that we may have destroyed in blind complicity. We may not be able to find them but by remembering them, it helps us to know that they are not forgotten.

Source: Living Things: Collected Poems

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