Zo mooi en toepasselijk, kippenvel……dit gedicht van David Whyte

Santiago

The road seen, then not seen, the hillside hiding

then revealing the way you should take,

the road dropping away from you as if leaving you

to walk on thin air, then catching you, holding you up,

when you thought you would fall – and the way forward

always in the end, the way that you came, the way

that you followed, that carried you into your future,

that brought you to this place, no matter that

it sometimes had to take your promise from you,

no matter that it always had to break your heart

along the way: the sense of having walked

from far inside yourself out into the revelation,

to have risked yourself for something that seemed

to stand both inside you and far beyond you,

that called you back in the end to the only road

you could follow, walking as you did, in your rags of love…

Excerpt from “Santiago” From Pilgrim: Poems by David Whyte ©2012 David Whyte

Commentaren: 4

• #1Anine (zaterdag, 07 juli 2018 21:09)Mooie reis gewenst, Marion!
  Liefs, Anine
• #2Henk (zondag, 08 juli 2018 11:40)Prachtig gedicht Marion. “…. and the road still stretching on…”
• #3Jeroen (maandag, 09 juli 2018 13:51)Veel succes met je reis en dat dat deze naar wens mag verlopen..
• #4Esther Prinssen (vrijdag, 13 juli 2018 22:24)Lieve Marion,
  inmiddels voor jou dag 6, al n eind op weg.
  Heel veel plezier , ik eens je n mooie wandeling . ( ik loop in gedachten mee)
  Knuffel Esther