has
gone ahead
and
is looking back,
calling
me on.
My
courageous life
has
seen everything
I
have been
and
everything
I
have not
and
has
forgiven
me,
day
after day.
My
courageous life
still
wants
my
company:
wants
me to
understand
my
life as witness
and
thus
bequeath
me
the
way ahead.
My
courageous life
has
the patience
to
keep teaching me,
how
to invent
my
own
disappearance,
and
how
once
gone,
to
reappear again.
My
courageous life
wants
to stop
being
ahead of me
so
that it can lie
down
and rest
deep
inside the body
it
has been
calling
on.
My
courageous life
wants
to be
my
foundation,
showing
me
day
after day
even
against my will
how
to undo myself,
how
to surpass myself,
how
to laugh as I go
in
the face
of
danger,
how
to invite
the
right kind
of
perilous
love,
how
to find
a way
to
die
of
generosity.
…
My
Courageous Life
A new
adaption of ‘Second Life’
in
Pilgrim
Poems
by David Whyte
©
Many Rivers Press and David Whyte
