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Code Poem
by Leo Marks

The life that I have is all that I have,
And the life that I have is yours.
The love that I have of the life that I have,
Is yours and yours and yours.

A sleep I shall have,
A rest I shall have,
Yet death will be but a pause,
For the peace of my years in the long green grass,

There are some pieces of poetry which become, almost from the moment of their creation immortal, unforgettable and somehow part of the fabric of who we are. The ‘Code Poem’ by Leo Marks is such a poem.

When I heard it spoken for the first time, I was transfixed. Time stopped, life stopped. I experienced a sense of being that I have never known since. This poem is beyond all knowing.

Howard Lawn

Translation by H. Lawn

An bheatha agàm - sin uile agàm,
Agus chugatsa, chugatsa é.
An grá ‘tá agàm den bheatha agàm,
Chugatsa, chugatsa é.

Beidh codladh agàm,
Sos suain agàm,
Ach níl sa bhás ach ré,
Suaimhneas saoil dem chodladh san fhéar,
Chugatsa, chugatsa é.

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