Of Being - Denise Levertov
I know this happiness
Is provisional:
The looming presences-
Great suffering, great fear-
Withdraw only
Into peripheral vision:
But ineluctable this shimmering
Of wind in the blue leave:
This flood of stillness
Widening the lake of sky:
This need to dance,
This need to kneel:
This mystery.
Is provisional:
The looming presences-
Great suffering, great fear-

Into peripheral vision:
But ineluctable this shimmering
Of wind in the blue leave:
This flood of stillness
Widening the lake of sky:
This need to dance,
This need to kneel:
This mystery.