go gently

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Until this week I had never heard of Dylan Thomas.  I read this book and it referenced his poem.  After finishing Matched I picked up Unshaken by Dan Woolley--totally different genre altogether and which poem does he reference in the opening chapters?  Oh yes, he did.  I thought I'd share it here because it haunts me and intrigues me simultaneously.  It also feeds into my somewhat morbid and macabre curiosity and interest surrounding death and dying.

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay, 
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

I'm unplugged again today because I'm loving it so.  Truthfully, I don't even turn the computer on until Monday afternoon.  A holiday it is.

What poem resonates with you?