tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-213834342011-04-21T13:18:59.975-07:00Ali :pnoreply@blogger.comBlogger11100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21383434.post-1150019621565577702006-06-11T02:33:00.000-07:002006-08-24T02:07:06.623-07:00Wild Geese- by Mary Oliver<br /><br />You do not have to be good.<br />You do not have to walk on your knees<br />for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.<br />You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.<br />Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.<br />Meanwhile the world goes on.<br />Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain<br />are moving across the landscapes,<br />over the prairies and deep trees,<br />the mountains and the rivers.<br />Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air<br />are heading home again.<br />Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,<br />the world offers itself to your imagination,<br />calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting--<br />over and over announcing your place<br />in the family of things.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21383434-115001962156557770?l=khirqa.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Ali :pnoreply@blogger.com1