INSPIRATION
THE JOURNEY
​
Above the mountains
the geese turn into
the light again
painting their

black silhouettes
on an open sky.
​
Sometimes everything
has to be
inscribed across
the heavens
so you can find
the one line
already written
inside you.
​
Sometimes it takes
a great sky
to find that
first, bright

and indescribable
wedge of freedom

in your own heart.
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.
​
You are not leaving,
even as the light
fades quickly now,
in my eyes
you are always
arriving.
​
…
‘The Journey’: in
David Whyte : Essentials
Many Rivers Press. January. 2020
https://davidwhyte.com/
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Into the West / Photo © David Whyte / Lough Inagh Connemara / June 20th 2019