After a visit to vincent

Live well today and plan your death.
By which I do not mean the farewell
to and by the grieving. Instead
I urge, be thoughtful of that day, and
know it will be nearer than you want.
So that now is ever beautiful
and the breath is full and felt.

Look to Seneca and Rumi, and
then, turn to your heart,
the depth of which may be
trawled too quick, too soon.
Go back and linger, rest;
know that waiting is itself
a journey for the mind.

Death is with us, as we breathe
our first and we should not forget.