humanities.lit.authors.shakespeare

On Feb 18, 1:13 pm, biggto...@gmail.com wrote:

> I'm trying to find a poem that contains these parts:
>
> "...life is no passing memory of a life already lived,
> but the remaining pages of a great book waiting to be read
> It is the opening of eyes long closed"
>
> Can anyone help me to find this work in it's entirety?
> Thank you, Tony

http://www.panhala.net/Archive/The_Opening_of_Eyes.html

The Opening of Eyes

That day I saw beneath dark clouds
The passing light over the water
And I heard the voice of the world speak out
I knew then as I have before
Life is no passing memory of what has been
Nor the remaining pages of a great book
Waiting to be read

It is the opening of eyes long closed
It is the vision of far off things
Seen for the silence they hold
It is the heart after years of secret conversing
Speaking out loud in the clear air

It is Moses in the desert fallen to his knees
Before the lit bush
It is the man throwing away his shoes
As if to enter heaven and finding himself astonished
Opened at last
Fallen in love
With Solid Ground

~ David Whyte ~

(Songs for Coming Home: Poems, 1987)