Wild Geese - Poem Mary Oliver

Wild Geese serves as a refuge, a place for us to drop in and remember that our hearts and our bodies are given to us only once. That amidst the joys and hardships life will continue to move forward, nature's rhythms and cycles will persist, the only thing that is required is for us to be true to ourselves, and remember our place to this interconnectivity of life.

Transcript

You do not have to be good.

You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting.

You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.

Tell me about despair,

Yours,

And I will tell you mine.

Meanwhile,

The world goes on.

Meanwhile,

The sun and the clear pebbles of the rain are moving across the landscapes,

Over the prairies and the deep trees,

The mountains and the rivers.

Meanwhile,

The wild geese high in the clean blue air are heading home again.

Whoever you are,

No matter how lonely,

The world offers itself to your imagination,

Calls to you like the wild geese,

Harsh and exciting,

Over and over announcing your place in the family of things.

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