That God had a plan, I do not doubt. But what if His plan was, that we would do better? - Mary Oliver

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That God had a plan, I do not doubt.

But what if His plan was, that we would do better?

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About Mary Oliver

Mary Jane Oliver (10 September 1935 – 17 January 2019) was an American poet who won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize.

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I thought the earth remembered me,
she took me back so tenderly,
arranging her dark skirts, her pockets
full of lichens and seeds.
I slept as never before, a stone on the river bed,
nothing between me and the white fire of the stars
but my thoughts, and they floated light as moths
among the branches of the perfect trees.
All night I heard the small kingdoms
breathing around me, the insects,
and the birds who do their work in the darkness.
All night I rose and fell, as if in water,
grappling with a luminous doom. By morning
I had vanished at least a dozen times
into something better.

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"الرحلة
ــــــ
أخيرا عرفت
ما عليك فعله،
وبدأت،
رغم...
الأصوات التي
تقذف نصائحها الرديئة
و رغم...
اهتزاز البيت...
و رغم الشد في كاحليك.
"اهتم بحياتي.....!! "
كل صوت يصرخ فيك.
لكنك لم تتوقف.
كنت تعرف ما عليك القيام به،
رغم شراسة الرياح
و قسوة أصابعها
التي كادت أن تطيح بك،
رغم الحزن
المريع.
فالوقت كان متأخراُ
موحشاً،
والطريق تملأه
فروع متساقطة.... وأحجار.
ولكن شيئا فشيئا،
ذابت في المسافات أصواتهم،
واحترقت النجوم......
وسط غيومها...،
ثم أتي صوت جديد
أدركت ببطء أنه صوتك..
أنه رفيق رحلتك التي غصت
العالم فيها
عازما على القيام
بالشيء الوحيد الذي يمكن فعله — عازما على....
إنقاذ الحياة الوحيدة....
التي بإمكانك حقا إنقاذها."

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