(poem) the circle of the world

 

you do what you do

            & the world keeps turning

                                                            by itself

            you take one step, & another

breathe, keep breathing –

                        flicker of light, cloud-shadow, larksong, rain –

                                                the whole of it 

 

                       there in its radiance 

           you're alive

      

 

 

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If you have been paying attention or, rather, managing to get to the end of my longer posts, you might recognise the snippet above. As so often happens, a few words lifted are much stronger than the impact of the same words embedded in another mediocre few thousand...