.
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We hear phrases: "He made me do it."
"I never wanted that." The boy's boat gets
Pushed out on the sea, and before long the tidal
Currents guide it from beneath. He goes to sleep.
He meets a woman, and marries her even though
He doesn't want to. He says, "It was the current."
But some tiny black figure swims below the boat,
Pushing it. This man or god works all night.
Then what? Months go by, years, twenty years.
A lot of water. The boat hits gravel.
It's an island - the kind where giants live.
"Don't say you didn't want it. Just get ready."
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~ Robert Bly
from Morning Poems
