‘The Life That I Have’

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

Will be yours and yours and yours.

From “Between Silk and Cyanide: A Codemaker’s War”

by Leo Marks (The Free Press: 614 pp., $27.50)