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The Journey
what you had to do, and began,
though the voices around you
kept shouting
their bad advice -
though the whole house
began to tremble and you felt the old tug
at your ankles.
"Mend my life!"
each voice cried
But you didn't stop.
You knew what you had to do,
though the wind pried
with its stiff fingers
at the very foundations,
through their melancholy
was terrible.
It was already late
enough, and a wild night,
and the road full of fallen
branches and stones.
But little by littles,
as your left their voices behind,
the stars began to burn
trough the sheets of clouds,
and there was a new voice
which you slowly
recognized as your own,
that kept you company
as you strode deeper and deeper into the world,
determined to do the only thing you could do -
determined to save
the only life you could save
Mary Oliver
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