Poems (Dickinson)/Apocalypse

by Emily Dickinson

For works with similar titles, see Apocalypse.

For other versions of this work, see I'm "wife"—I've finished that—.

XVI.

APOCALYPSE.

I'm wife; I've finished that,
That other state;
I'm Czar, I'm woman now:
It's safer so.

How odd the girl's life looks
Behind this soft eclipse!
I think that earth seems so
To those in heaven now.

This being comfort, then
That other kind was pain;
But why compare?
I'm wife! stop there!