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Making peace with an enemy has more than once rendered him helpless. 
The selfish cheat themselves.
God grant me absolution for the time I
waste, but let me waste some several Sundays more.
- from "Come to Me in Silence", 1973
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TWO POEMS FROM
"MOMENT TO MOMENT" |
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In Case You Didn’t Know
Some days up ahead
will come down empty
and some years fuller
than the fullest one
we’ve known before.
Today has been
the best day yet.
I thought
you ought to know that,
and I thought it time
that I said thank you
for whatever might have
passed between us
that in your mind
you might have felt
missed my attention.
It didn’t
and it doesn’t
and it won’t.
Thank you
for the everydays
that you make
into holidays.
I close up
more often now,
not just to you
but even to myself
within myself.
I know I should
be always open.
At least I ought to make
a
better try.
I will.
Had I the Courage of One
Some distance there is
between my back
and this new morning.
Had I the courage of one
I’d turn you around.
Had I the courage of five
I’d turn you around inside you
pulling all the dark earth
with me.
Had I the courage of ten
we’d start so much together
that we’d never have the time
to finish even one thing started.
Had I the courage of one hundred
I’d stand back and look at you.
That’s all.
Moving away, moving away,
gone you are while yet arriving.
Had I the courage of one
I’d run beside you or behind you.
Instead I run away.
So it is we’ve started out
on this new day together
to travel parallel paths
in opposite directions.
- from "Moment To Moment", 1973, 1974, 1975 |
