Let a joy keep you. <br />Reach out your hands <br />And take it when it runs by, <br />As the Apache dancer <br />Clutches his woman. <br />I have seen them <br />Live long and laugh loud, <br />Sent on singing, singing, <br />Smashed to the heart <br />Under the ribs <br />With a terrible love. <br />Joy always, <br />Joy everywhere-- <br />Let joy kill you! <br />Keep away from the little deaths.<br /><br />Carl Sandburg<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/joy-2/
