Lucky
All this time,
the life you were
supposed to live
has been rising around you
like the walls of a house
designed with warm
harmonious lines.
the life you were
supposed to live
has been rising around you
like the walls of a house
designed with warm
harmonious lines.
As if you had actually
planned it that way.
planned it that way.
As if you had
stacked up bricks
at random,
and built by mistake
a lucky star.
stacked up bricks
at random,
and built by mistake
a lucky star.
by Kirsten Dierking
From Northern Oracle. © Spout Press, 2007.
Courtesy of The Writer's Almanac. (Listen Online)
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