This Is It

Picture: Branches With Almond Blossom by Vincent Van Gogh

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What is the most loving choice I can make?

Ask yourself, once or twice, at this momènt.

Gift of wisteria, pale, purple, awake,

God-severed. Living, you shall not repent.

I was high above the ground, questioning

The very nature of acting, like so:

Mistake the scenery for a longing,

And you’ll plow forever, and never mow.

This is it, I told myself, this is it;

I could see it through the branches, I could

Hear it in the pheasant’s trill, this is it;

Being still on the mother tree, I could…

Magenta, silk white, noontime pink, they loom,

Not asking when, nor why, nor how, they bloom.

Herons