Thank You Raymond Carver

“And did you get what
you wanted from this life, even so?
I did.
And what did you want?
To call myself beloved, to feel myself
beloved on the earth.

from "Late Fragment" by Raymond Carver

I appreciate your question

Raymond Carver.  I thought
I knew the answer.
 

You have the answer

when you find the basic joy
of life and name it.

To feel beloved on this earth

is the one precious thing
in all things I have ignored

In reaching out and searching

ever searching I skipped around
dove over, and ignored the answer.
 

I have been beloved on this earth

and I have loved deeply.  I have
everything I ever wanted.