Thich Nhat Hanh - Look deeply; I arrive in every second to be a bud

Look deeply; I arrive in every second to be a bud on a spring branch ... to be a jewel hiding itself in a stone.

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Nhat Hanh, Thich. Call Me by My True Names: The Collected Poems of Thich Nhat Hanh. Parallax Press, 1999, p. 72.

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Do not say that I'll depart tomorrow
because even today I still arrive.
Look at me: I arrive in every second
to be a bud on a spring branch,
to be a tiny bird whose wings are still fragile,
learning to sing in my new nest,
to be a caterpillar in the heart of a flower,
to be a jewel hiding itself in a stone.

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