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YOU KNOW WHEN ITS TIME TO GO
By David Whyte
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Even in the midst
of thinking
you’ll
never be ready
even when
you feel
you have never
deserved
that freedom
to go
even under
the comforting
illusion
that you
never had
a single speck
of faith
in what
you want
you have
already packed,
your silent
reluctance away,
lifted your ear
to the morning
birdsong
and before
anyone
can wake
you are
already
out the door,
down the road
round the corner
and on your way.
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[Art: Duy Huynh]
