poetry: david whyte from ‘coleman’s bed’

Be taught now, among the trees and the rocks, 

How the discarded is woven into shelter, 

Learn the way things hidden and unspoken

Slowly proclaim their voice in the world. 

Find that inward symmetry

To all outward appearances, apprentice 

Yourself to yourself, begin to welcome back 

All you sent away, be a new annunciation, 

Make yourself a door through which 

To be hospitable, even to the stranger in you. 

David Whyte, from “Coleman’s bed”