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Tuesday, August 27, 2013

"The Journey"



One day 
you finally knew
what you had to do, and began
though the voices around you
kept shouting
their bad advice-
though the whole house
began to tremble
and you felt the old tug
at your ankles.
"Mend my life!"
each voice cried.
But you didn't stop.
You knew what you had to do,
though the wind pried
with its stiff fingers
at the very foundations,
though their melancholy
was terrible.
It was already late
enough, and a wild night,
and the road full of fallen branches and stones.
But little by little
as you left their voices behind,
the stars began to burn
through the sheets of the clouds,
and there was a new voice
which you slowly
recognised as your own,
that kept you company
as you stode deeper and deeper
into the world,

determined to do

the only thing I could do-

determined to save

the only Life I could save.

~Mary Oliver

~Beannaichte'
26 August, 2013

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