With a nod of appreciation to Shawna Lemay for posting on her thoughtful blog, Transactions with Beauty, this Adam Zagajewski poem, “Wake Up.”
I love the invitation to self, waking. Isn’t that what so much of living is. And I love these flowers, beautiful as they are, from a recent walk.
Wake Up
by Adam Zagajewski
Wake up, my soul.
I don’t know where you are,
where you’re hiding,
but wake up, please,
we’re still together,
the road is still before us,
a bright strip of dawn
will be our star.
“the road is still before us,
a bright strip of dawn
will be our star.”
This was what caught my attention. I love the movement toward a bright strip of dawn, a star by which we can guide our journey together.