The Journey

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Charliedog
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Posted - Jan 18 2019 :  04:23:11 AM  Show Profile  Email Poster  Visit Charliedog's Homepage  Edit Topic  Reply with Quote  View user's IP address  Get a Link to this Message  Delete Topic
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.

~Mary Oliver

Thank you for your gifts of awakening and beauty. RIP Mary Oliver....you were divine
BlueRaincoat
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Dogboy
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kumar ul islam
United Kingdom
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 Posted - Jan 18 2019 :  5:29:12 PM  Show Profile  Email Poster  Edit Reply  Reply with Quote  View user's IP address  Get a Link to this Reply  Delete Reply
just take a step back from the edge reason
and allow the heart to guide the you
the space between the thought and action
the eternal moment when the real choice is made

decisions made upon a knowledge
with a purifying practice behind the facade
slowly by and by dissolved in love
the wandering soul becomes aware

feeling its way through the nets of sense
the veils of creation removed by truth alone
like water wearing away the mountain of existence
to be left with something more not yet whole

the dreams we live and tell ourselves
are the paths we tread
to the truth we discover from the view we see
you have one choice walk ,run ,fly on




Edited by - kumar ul islam on Jan 18 2019 8:47:02 PM
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Beehive
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Blanche
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