Poetry Unbound

David Whyte — Leaving the Island

11.11.2022 - By On Being StudiosPlay

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Sometimes leaving feels like you’re splitting yourself in two, but you leave anyway. What compels us? What holds us together even as we look back? David Whyte’s poem combines pain and promise as someone is both departing and venturing at the same time.

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