by David Whyte
Above Manang
What I have left behind
has not left me.
Those I have failed
have not failed me,
and those I have not loved
will love me
even in my worst.
What I have not seen
or failed to see
I leave as a gift.
The lands I have not walked
will offer their paths as I sleep.
This earth I have not loved
will hold me
even as I am laid beneath it.
To everything that is
I give everything I am not.
To the life through which
I have walked blindfold,
I give it in the sight of my weakness.
To life I give thanks for this-
one strength through great failure
with marvelous opportunity for all.