I'm reading a book, Saved by a Poem
As it turns out, what's also been going on for me this week is an extra scoop of Monkey Mind ice-cream doled out daily. The flavor of the week: am-I-good-enough mixed in with does-anyone-like-my-work.
Thankfully, all of this gels in the very first poem I choose to learn by heart:
I'm Nobody! Who are you?
Are you – Nobody – too?
Then there's a pair of us!
Don't tell! they'd advertise – you know!
How dreary – to be – Somebody!
How public – like a Frog –
To tell one's name – the livelong June –
To an admiring Bog!
—Emily Dickinson
Ah, freedom.
What a great antidote to ego!
Poem copyright Emily Dickinson; Photo copyright iStock Photo