Call Me by My True Names (by Thich Nhat Hanh)

[silvershe_wolf]

Do not say that I'll depart tomorrow
because even today I still arrive.
Look deeply: I arrive in every second
to be a bud on a spring branch,
to be a tiny bird, with wings still fragile,
learning to sing in my new nest,
to be a caterpillar in the heart of a flower,
to be a jewel hiding itself in a stone.

I still arrive, in order to laugh and to cry,

Comments

[bobby1933]

Every time i read this there is something there that i didn't see before. Thank you.

[silvershe_wolf]

It is beautiful, isn't it? I finished Thich Nhat Hanh's book Peace is Every Step yday, and was so moved by this poem (and indeed the whole book!)