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 Today's Meditation features David Whyte's "Cleave."

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MEDITATION 831: David Whyte: Cleave

June 20, 2018 ·

CLEAVE

To hold together and to split apart

at one and the same time,

like the shock of being born,

breathing in this world

while lamenting for the one we’ve left.

No one needs to tell us

we are already on our onward way,

no one has to remind us

of our everyday and intimate

embrace

with disappearance.

We were born saying goodbye

to what we love,

we were born

in a beautiful reluctance

to be here,

not quite ready

to breathe in this new world.

We are here and we are not,

we are present while still not

wanting to admit we have arrived.

Not quite arrived in our minds

yet always arriving in the body,

always growing older

while trying to grow younger,

always in the act

of catching up,

of saying hello

or saying goodbye

finding strangely,

in each new and imagined future

the still-lived memory

of our previous,

precious life.

…

CLEAVE

From

THE BELL AND THE BLACKBIRD

Poetry by David Whyte

APRIL 2018 © David Whyte and Many Rivers Press