be Thou my vision!

Of Being ~ Denise Levertov (1923-1997)

I know this happiness
Is provisional:
                            the looming presences--
                            great suffering, great fear--

                            withdraw only
                             into peripheral vision:

but ineluctable this shimmering
of wind in the blue leaves:

this flood of stillness
widening the lake of sky:

this need to dance,
this need to kneel:
                           
                            this mystery: