Clearing

     


Clearing by Martha Postlewaite

Do not try to save 
the whole world or do anything grandiose. 
Instead, create a clearing 
in the dense forest of your life 
and wait there patiently, 
until the song 
that is your life 
falls into your own cupped hands 
and you recognize and greet it. 
Only then 
will you know 
how to give yourself 
to this world so 
worthy of rescue.