look no further
But all your losses brought you here to walk
under one name and to walk under one name only,
and to find the guise under which all loss can live;
remember, you were given that name every day
along the way, remember, you were greeted as such,
and treated as such, and you needed no other name,
other people seemed to know you even before you gave up
being a shadow on the road and came into the light,
even before you sat down,
broke bread and drank wine,
wiped the wind-tears from your eyes:
pilgrim they called you again and again. Pilgrim.
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Excerpt from the poem ‘CAMINO’
From ‘PILGRIM’: Poems by David Whyte
I ᖇEᔕOᒪᐯE
TO ᗷE ᗩᗯᗩᖇE
TO ᔕEE ᗩᑎᗪ ᔕEEK
ᗪIᗩᗰOᑎᗪᔕ ᗩᑎᗪ EᗰEᖇᗩᒪᗪᔕ
TO ᗯᖇITE about
ᗩᑎᗪ
ᗪOᑕᑌᗰEᑎT TᕼEᗰ
EᐯEᖇY way
EᐯEᖇY day
I ᖇEᔕOᒪᐯE
TO ᔕᗩY
‘I ᔕᗯᗩᖇE’
To ᑕᗩᖇE and CARRY
ᗰIᖇᗩᑕᒪEᔕ ᗩᑎᗪ ᒍEᗯEᒪᔕ
TO ᔕᕼᗩᖇE
ᗯITᕼ TᕼOᔕE I ᗰEET ᗩᒪOᑎG TᕼE ᗯᗩY
EᐯEᖇY ᗯᕼEᖇE
I WILL BEAR
THE TALES OF THE PILGRIM
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AL
The road seen, then not seen, the hillside hiding
then revealing the way you should take,
the road dropping away from you as if leaving you
to walk on thin air, then catching you, holding you up,
when you thought you would fall, and the way forward
always in the end the way that you came,
the way that you followed, the way that carried
you into your future, that brought you
to this place, no matter that it sometimes took
your promise from you, no matter that it always had to break
your heart along the way, the sense of having walked
from far inside yourself out into the revelation,
to have risked yourself for something that seemed
to stand both inside you and far beyond you,
that called you back in the end to the only road
you could follow, walking as you did, in your
rags of love and speaking in the voice
that by night, became a prayer for safe arrival…
👫
Excerpt from “SANTIAGO”
From PILGRIM: Poems by David Whyte
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