Episode 20: Landscape Larger Than The One You See
SHOW NOTES
Tonight Robin shares another one of her poems she wrote during a particularly difficult period in her life. She wrote it to encourage herself and then shared with others - who started hanging it on their office walls. It’s called There Is A Landscape Larger Than The One You See. We’ll leave it here in the show notes in case you’d like to read instead of listening to it - or print it and tape it on your own wall! I also make a nod to poet David Whyte - he read the lines twice, though in a different way than I do, or even three times, so I’ve repeated it twice for you to hear. Enjoy!
There Is A Landscape Larger Than The One You See
By Robin Rice
There is a landscape larger than the one you see
There is a mountain beyond the mountain
That has not yet moved toward your life.
There is a sun behind the clouds and a sun behind that sun and a moon and
Stars and friends and food and love all waiting
A sent package that has not yet arrived.
There is a door in the wall that you have not seen
And so never opened, let alone stepped through
But you not knowing does not change the wall
Or the door and all its waiting potential.
You must find your way as a blind man reads the page
As you read this very next line
Not knowing what comes next
Or when the door will appear
Or the key (or by whom)
Or how you will find the strength to push it open
After so very much weakness in the arms and the knees.
What to do? What to do?
Unaware of how long it will be
(Long, so often long, I am sorry)
Before your eyes adjust to a new light
You can only know that for now that you are lost
And not lost.
You can only assume that somehow you need this
Soaked as it is in the old pain, things forgotten, and
More love than you knew you had inside of you.
All that you did not want to know
Now you know.
Now, you must trust.
Trust that this - this alone - is enough.
Here is the Youtube Video Link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__vnqTVBpw4
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CREDITS:
Music: Arni Karlsson
Editing: Predrag Mladenović
