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INSPIRATION

THE JOURNEY

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Above the mountains 
the geese turn into
the light again

painting their

black silhouettes
on an open sky.

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Sometimes everything 
has to be
inscribed across 
the heavens

so you can find 
the one line
already written 
inside you.

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Sometimes it takes 
a great sky
to find that

first, bright

and indescribable
wedge of freedom

in your own heart.

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Sometimes with

the bones of the black
sticks left when the fire 
has gone out

someone has written 
something new
in the ashes

of your life.

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You are not leaving,
even as the light 
fades quickly now,
in my eyes
you are always 
arriving.

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‘The Journey’: in 
David Whyte : Essentials
Many Rivers Press. January. 2020
https://davidwhyte.com/
collections/books-cards-and-audio/products/david-whyte-essentials

Into the West  /  Photo © David Whyte /  Lough Inagh Connemara /  June 20th 2019

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