Just Beyond Yourself

It's where you need to be

Photo: © David Whyte

Just Beyond Yourself

Just beyond
yourself.

It’s where
you need
to be.

Half a step
into
self-forgetting
and the rest
restored
by what
you’ll meet.

There is a road
always beckoning.

When you see
the two sides
of it
closing together
at that far 
horizon
and 
deep in
the foundations
of your own
heart
at exactly
the same
time,
that’s h…