Ponds

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still. I want in my life is to be willing
to be dazzled -
to caste aside the weight of facts
and may be even to float a little
above this difficult world.
I want to believe I am looking
into the white fire of a great mystery.
I want to believe that the imperfections are nothing -
that the light is everything - that it is more than the sum
of each flawed blossom rising and fading. And I do.

Excerpt: "The Ponds" ~ Mary Oliver