Playspace: April 2008
The Journey
By David Whyte from The House of Belonging
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
Small, 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
You are arriving.
Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws
him, and then choose that way with all his strength.
–Hasidic saying