Daye 85 / The Secret

two girls discover
the secret of life
in a sudden line of
poetry

i who don't know the
secret wrote
the line
they told me

(through a third person)
they had found it
but not what it was
not even

what line it was
no doubt
by now
more than a week
later
they have forgotten
the secret

the line
the name of
the poem
i love them
for finding what
i can't find

and for loving me
for the line i wrote
and for forgetting it
so that

a thousand times
till death
finds them
they may
discover it again
in other
lines

in other
happenings
and for
wanting to know it
for

assuming there is
such a secret
yes
for that
most of all
~Denise Levertov