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6/3/2017

 
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​SOMETIMES
Sometimes
if you move carefully
through the forest,

breathing
like the ones
in the old stories,

who could cross
a shimmering bed 
of leaves
without a sound,

you come
to a place
whose only task

is to trouble you
with tiny
but frightening 
requests,

conceived out of nowhere
but in this place
beginning to lead everywhere.

Requests to stop what
you are doing right now,
and

to stop what you
are becoming
while you do it,

questions
that can make
or unmake
a life,

questions
that have patiently
waited for you,

questions
that have no right
to go away.

...

SOMETIMES
From ‘Everything Is Waiting for You’
© David Whyte and Many Rivers Press 

…

Mist: Buckholt Wood. 
Photo © David Whyte
Cotswolds England 2013

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