05.29.09
Leaving Midnight
Last post for two months. WordPress is not allowed in China.
I copied this down a long time ago forgetting to write down the writer’s name… here it is…
You are good when you are fully awake in your speech
yet you are not evil when you sleep while
your tongue staggers without purpose.
And even stumbling speech may strengthen a weak tongue.
You are good when you walk to your goal firmly and with bold steps,
yet you are not evil when you go thither limping.
Even those who limp go not backward.
But you who are strong and swift, see that you do not limp before the lame,
deeming it kindness.
You are good in countless ways, and you
are not evil when you are not good,
you are only loitering and sluggard.
Pity that the stags cannot teach swiftness to the turtles.
In your longing for your giant self lies
your goodness: and that longing is in all of you.
But in some of you that longing is a torrent rushing what might to the sea,
carrying the secrets of the hillsides and the songs of the forest.
And in others it is a flat stream that loses itself in angles
and bends and lingers before it reaches the shore.
But let not him who longs much say to him who longs little,
“wherefore are you slow and halting?”
For the truly good ask not the naked, “where is your garment?”
nor the houseless, “where has befallen your house?”
Be back in two months 
much, much love.
