If you come close to the truth,
There are consequences.

Patience
by Kay Ryan

Patience is
wider than one
once envisioned,
with ribbons
of rivers
and distant
ranges and
tasks undertaken
and finished
with modest
relish by
natives in their
native dress.
Who would
have guessed
it possible
that waiting
is sustainable—
a place with
its own harvests.
Or that in
time's fullness
the diamonds
of patience
couldn't be
distinguished
from the genuine
in brilliance
or hardness.

We often see people who are said to be "bursting with life" and who, in fact, are simply wrestling with their own incoherence.
Merton

Life is meant to superabound but not to explode and those who are bursting with life are often merely plunging into death with an enormous splash. They do not transcend death, they surrender to it with so much vitality that they are able to drag many others with them into the abyss.
Merton

Ae fond kiss, and then we sever!
Ae farewell, alas, for ever!
Deep in heart-wrung tears I'll pledge thee,
Warring sighs and groans I'll wage thee.

Robert Burns

Sweet Wretched creature, saviour take
Who would exult to die
And leave for thy sweet mercy's sake
Another hour to me.
Emily Dickinson