Things to Think - Robert Bly

[Larry Robinson]

Things to Think

Think in ways you've never thought before. 
If the phone rings, think of it as carrying a message 
Larger than anything you've ever heard, 
Vaster than a hundred lines of Yeats. 

Think that someone may bring a bear to your door, 
Maybe wounded and deranged; or think that a moose 
Has risen out of the lake, and he's carrying on his antlers 
A child of your own whom you've never seen. 

When someone knocks on the door, think that he's about 
To give you something large: tell you you're forgiven, 
Or that it's not necessary to work all the time, or that it's 
Been decided that if you lie down no one will die. 

	- Robert Bly