The Daily Boost #577

Learn by going where you have to go

THE WAKING
Poem by Theodore Roethke
Music by Kurt Elling and Rob Amster
Performed by Scott Mulvahill

I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow
I feel my fate in what I cannot fear
I learn by going where I have to go

We think by feeling, what is there to know?
I feel my being dance from ear to ear
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow
Of those so close beside me, which are you?

God bless the Ground, I shall walk softly there
And learn by going where I have to go
Light takes the trees but who can tell us how
The lowly worm climbs up the winding stair?

I wake to sleep, I wake to sleep, I wake to sleep . . .

I wake to sleep and take my waking slow
Great Nature has another thing to do
To you and me, so take the lively air
And, lovely, learn by going where to go
Lovely, learn by going where to go . . .

(My thanks to performer Scott Mulvahill, poet Theodore Roethke, and composers Kurt Elling and Rob Amster.)

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