Quote of the moment
When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
-Wendell Berry: The Peace or the Wild Things
Second chances
I have none
All my attempts
Come always undone
Second place
In a one man race
Just one more loss
One more I must face
It is never enough
No matter what I do
I will always fall short
For me, this is nothing new
Love is something
I well never be allowed to live
I cannot fully receive it
Seldom even permitted to give.
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