{"id":81781,"date":"2019-10-20T15:49:23","date_gmt":"2019-10-20T21:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tracyrittmueller.com\/?p=81781"},"modified":"2020-10-06T16:46:31","modified_gmt":"2020-10-06T16:46:31","slug":"poem-healing-is-a-never-ending-departure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tracyrittmueller.com\/2019\/10\/20\/poem-healing-is-a-never-ending-departure\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem: Healing is a Never Ending Departure"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Healing is a Never Ending Departure<\/h2>\n<p style=\"padding-left:40px;\"><i>an<\/i> <i>improvisation after the poem STUFEN by Hermann Hesse<br \/>\n<strong>Tracy Rittmueller<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Like every flower fades and every childhood<br \/>\nwithers into age, every stage<br \/>\nof life blooms; each insight, too.<br \/>\nAnd every goodness blossoms in its time<br \/>\nyet will not last forever. In every purpose,<br \/>\nin every call of life, the heart<br \/>\nmust willingly let go.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"><br \/>\n<\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0And then begin again,<br \/>\nthat with fortitude, yet not without some lamentation,<br \/>\nwe may give ourselves to new endeavors.<br \/>\nSo let us dare to journey<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"><br \/>\n<\/span>from provision to provision.<br \/>\nLet\u2019s cling to no familiar thing as if to home,<br \/>\nfor we are scarcely settled in our cozy way of life<br \/>\nwhen fear will rear to threaten<br \/>\nour tranquil disposition. To be free<br \/>\nof a grasping, acquisitive nature we must<br \/>\nbe ever ready to depart, to travel on.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\nPerhaps even the hour of our death<br \/>\nwill be like another eviction,<br \/>\nrenewing our vigor. Life calls us<br \/>\nto our never ending story.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"><br \/>\n<\/span>All is still well.<br \/>\nTake heart, dear heart.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"><br \/>\n<\/span>Release, that you may heal.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-nd\/4.0\/\" rel=\"license\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-width:0;\" src=\"https:\/\/i.creativecommons.org\/l\/by-nc-nd\/4.0\/88x31.png\" alt=\"Creative Commons License\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThis poem is licensed under a <a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-nd\/4.0\/\" rel=\"license\">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>You are free to:<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"license-properties\">\n<li class=\"license share\"><strong>Share<\/strong> \u2014 copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format, under the following terms:<\/li>\n<li>https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-nd\/4.0\/ (<a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-nd\/4.0\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">read the licensing terms here<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Healing is a Never Ending Departure an improvisation after the poem STUFEN by Hermann Hesse Tracy Rittmueller Like every flower fades and every childhood withers into age, every stage of life blooms; each insight, too. And every goodness blossoms in its time yet will not last forever. 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