I Think That When I Die - Ursula LeGuin

[Larry Robinson]

I Think That When I Die

I think that when I die,
I can breathe back the breath that made me live.
I can give back to the world all that I didn't do.
All that I might have been and couldn't be.
All the choices I didn't make.
All the things I lost and spent and wasted.
I can give them back to the world.
To the lives that haven't been lived yet.
That will be my gift to the world
that gave me the life I did live,
the love that I loved,
the breath that I breathed.

	- Ursula LeGuin