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"You are a child of the universe.
No less than the moon and the stars,
you have a right to be here."
Desiderata
When I first read those lines, at twenty-seven,
I wept. It was the beginning of my journey
into Selfhood. I had not known, before,
that I had a right to be here.
As a child of the universe,
I sought love,
and found pain and betrayal.
As a child of the universe,
I journeyed across the desert
and fell in love with the sea.
As a child of the universe,
I trusted,
and learned the only one
I ever had to trust
was me.
As a child of the universe,
trekking decade by decade
through the glorious landscape
of this infinitely beautiful world,
I grew whole, and old,
and Souled.
posted for Kim Nelson's Verse First prompt at Poets United : A Place In the Universe
