Reflections of a Man's Heart

The old knot:

cleave to this,

though faithfulness, all faithfulness,

cuts at the heart

(that wreckage carved out by choice, the heart)

& cleave this -

whatever is split

will carry its shadow, that second road,

its yellow leaves falling and falling

in the steep woods of our hundred other lives.

 

- Jane Hirshfield, Of Gravity & Angels.