Mysteries too marvelous to be understood... (Mary Oliver)

Truly, we live with mysteries too marvelous 

to be understood. 

                       

How grass can be nourishing in the 

mouths of the lambs. 

How rivers and stones are forever 

in allegiance with gravity 

while we ourselves dream of rising. 

How two hands touch and the bonds 

will never be broken. 

How people come, from delight or the 

scars of damage, 

to the comfort of a poem. 

                        

Let me keep my distance, always, from those 

who think they have the answers. 

                       

Let me keep company always with those who say 

Look! and laugh in astonishment 

and bow their heads. 

--Mary Oliver, Mysteries, Yes                           

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