Heart in Piece,
I LOVE that poem!! "Desiderata" was the name of my first college dorm, so I have been drawn to that poem ever since.
At a garage sale after college, I bought what I thought was the Desiderata decoupaged onto a slab of wood and kept it up in every place I've ever lived. But, while on some recovery sites (
), I found the WHOLE poem...the one I'd had all those years before was only the first half and stopped at "
and everywhere life is full of heroism."
I have grown rather fond of the latter half, feeling as though I missed out on the part I NEEDED to read...especially these lines:
Especially, do not feign affection.
Neither be cynical about love;
for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment
it is as perennial as the grass.
You are a child of the universe,
no less than the trees and the stars;
you have a right to be here.
And whether or not it is clear to you,
no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.
Great recovery principles (and to think it was written some 8 years before AA was started...)