David Whyte-Everything is Waiting For You

this is a piece I wrote called inevitably everything is waiting for you your great mistake is to act the drama as if you are alone your great mistake is to act the drama as if you are alone as if life were a progressive and cunning crime with no witness to the tiny hidden transgressions as if life were a progressive and cunning crime with no witness to the tiny hidden transgressions to feel abandoned is to deny the intimacy of your surroundings surely even you at times have felt the grand array the swelling presence and the chorus crowding out your solo voice you must note the way the soap dish enables you or the window latch grants you courage alertness is the hidden discipline of familiarity alertness is the hidden discipline a familiar familiarity the stairs are your mentor of things to come the doors have always been there to frighten you and invite you and the tiny speaker in the phone is your dream ladder to divinity put down the weight of your aloneness and ease into the conversation put down the weight of your aloneness and ease into the conversation the kettle is singing even as it pours you a drink the cooking pots have left their arrogant aloofness and seen the good in you at last all the birds and creatures of the world are unutterably themselves everything everything everything is waiting for you your great mistake is to act the drama as if you are alone as if life were a progressive and cunning crime with no witness no witness to the tiny hidden transgressions to feel abandoned is to deny the intimacy of your surrounding surely surely even you at times have felt the grand array the swelling presence and the chorus crowding out your solo voice you must note the way the soap dish enables you or the window latch once you courage alertness alertness is the hidden discipline of familiarity and latinus is the hidden discipline a familiarity the stairs are your mentor of things to come the doors have always been there to frighten you and invite you and the tiny speaker in the phone is your dream ladder to divinity put down the weight of your aloneness the weight of your aloneness and ease into the conversation the kettle is singing the cattle is singing even as it pours your drink even as it pours your drink the cooking pots have left their arrogant aloofness and seen the good in you at last all the birds and creatures of the world are unutterably unutterably themselves everything everything is waiting for you this is a piece I wrote

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Length: 3min 6sec (186 seconds)

Published: Tue Jul 26 2016