Of Being

(Found here)

I know this happiness

is provisional:

          the looming presences—

          great suffering, great fear—

          withdraw only

          into peripheral vision:

but ineluctable this shimmering

of wind in the blue leaves:

this flood of stillness

widening the lake of sky:

this need to dance,

this need to kneel:
                              this mystery:

~Denise Levertov