... And who will care, who will chide you if you wander away
from wherever you are, to look for your soul?

....

Listen, are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?

....

For how long will you continue to listen to those dark shouters,
caution and prudence?

Fall in! Fall in!

....

from Have You Ever Tried to Enter the Long Black Branches
by
Mary Oliver,
West Wind: Poems and Prose Poems, New and Selected Poems, Volume Two


found on
http://johnhammons.blogspot.com/2008/11/for-lk.html
with beautiful art