Wednesday, February 11, 2009

When thinking about what I'm going to do when all this madness of education is over, I found this poem and though they're someone elses words I think that it sums up something of what I hope to do when I'm free, roll on July!

The Journey by Mary Oliver

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.
(What am I listening to? - For Blue Skies by Strays Don't Sleep)

1 comment:

thoughts of a person on a journey said...

hey thanks for your comment on my blog - I looked on yours a couple of days ago - but it was only a quick glance as I was rushing about the blogosphere!!

hope you are doing all right? Rich came back and is still settling in, but he is getting there!!