Begin...The Journey

02/25/2012 09:24:00

Reader, This is for you to use as a beginning....The Journey by Mary Oliver

                                                    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 clouds,
                                         and there was a new voice
                                                which you slowly
                                            recognized as your own,
                                            that kept you company
                                    as you strode deeper and deeper
                                                 into the world,
                                               determined to do
                                       the only thing you could do --
                                            determined to save
                                    the only life you could save.

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