You left me – Sire – two Legacies

You left me – Sire – two Legacies

Poem by Emily Dickinson

You left me – Sire – two Legacies –
A Legacy of Love
A Heavenly Father would suffice
Had He the offer of –

You left me Boundaries of Pain –
Capacious as the Sea –
Between Eternity and Time –
Your Consciousness – and me –