...it's the last line that's so important.
Things to Think by Robert Bly
Think in ways you’ve never thought before.
If the phone rings, think of it as carrying a message
Larger than anything you’ve ever heard,
Vaster than a hundred lines of Yeats.
Think that someone may bring a bear to your door,
Maybe wounded and deranged; or think that a moose
Has risen out of the lake, and he’s carrying on his antlers
A child of your own whom you’ve never seen.
When someone knocks on the door, think that he’s about
To give you something large: tell you you’re forgiven,
Or that it’s not necessary to work all the time, or that it’s
Been decided that if you lie down no one will die.
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robert bly and his movement drive me insane but i like this poem a lot
had the same experience this weekend as i messed up my right hand (typing w/ thunb and left hand) and couldn't do any of the things on sunday that i was suppsed to for guesthouse and realized no one would die. :-)
Isn't it amazing how insignificant our dramas really are?
I have never heard of Bly, just stumbled on this poem and found it so fitting for so many of us!
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