Willing to be Dazzled

Still, what I want in my life

is to be willing

to be dazzled—

to cast aside the weight of facts

and maybe even

to float a little

above this difficult world.

I want to believe I am looking

into the white fire of a great mystery.

I want to believe that the imperfections are nothing—

that the light is everything—that it is more than the sum 

of each flawed blossom rising and fading. And I do.

–Mary Oliver, from “The Ponds”