Full of hesitations, questions, choice of directions (Mary Oliver)

The singular and cheerful life

of any flower

in anyone’s garden

or any still unowned field –

                       

if there are any –

catches me

by the heart,

by its color,

                       

by its obedience

to the holiest of laws:

to be alive

until you are not.

                       

Ragweed,

pale violet bull thistle,

morning glories curling

through the field corn;

                       

and those princes of everything green—

the grasses

of which there are truly

an uncountable company,

                       

each

on its singular stem

striving

to rise and ripen.

                       

What, in the earth world,

is there not to be amazed by

and to be steadied by

and to cherish?

                       

Oh, my dear heart

my own dear heart,

full of hesitations,

questions, choice of directions,

                       

look at the world.

Behold the morning glory,

the meanest flower, the ragweed, the thistle.

Look at the grass.

--Mary Oliver, 

The Singular and Cheerful Life

in Evidence:  Poems

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