"One day you finally knew
what you had to do,
& began,
though the voices around you
kept shouting their bad advice ~"
"though the whole house
began to tremble
& you felt the old tug
at your ankles."
"Mend my life"
each voice cried.
But you didn't stop.
"You knew what you had to do,
though the wind pried
with its stiff fingers
at the very foundations,
though their melancholy was terrible."
"It was already late enough,
& a wild night,
& the road full of fallen branches and stones."
"But little by little,
as you left their voices behind,
the stars began to burn
through the sheets of clouds,
& there was a new voice
which you slowly recognized as your own,"
"that kept you company
as you strode deeper & deeper
into the world,
determined to do
the only thing you could do ~"
"determined to save
the only life you could save."
Words: Mary Oliver
Model: Ani Pinchuk
Muah: Stephanie Korhonen
© Rebecca Watson Photography
Love.
Big hug dear Regine ♡ !
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