I find myself thinking a lot about this poem lately.
Nothing Gold Can Stay
Nature's first green is gold Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf's a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay.
i feel like i should be coughing up blood my throat hurts that badly so i'm coughing and checking my hand for flecks of blood which, of course, do not appear