Still, what I want in my life
is to be willing
to be dazzled—
to cast aside the weight of facts
And maybe even
to float a little
above this difficult world.
I want to believe I am looking
into the white fire of a great mystery.
I want to believe that the imperfections are nothing—
that the light is everything—that is is more than the sum
of each flawed blossom rising and fading. And I do.
~Mary Oliver, from “The Ponds”