Clearing 

             by Martha Postlewaite

      Do not try to save
      the whole world
      or do anything grandiose.
      Instead, create
      a clearing
      in the dense forest
      of your life
      and wait there
      patiently,
      until the song
      that is your life
      falls into your own cupped hands
      and you recognize and greet it.
      Only then will you know
      how to give yourself
      to this world
      so worth of rescue.