The Waking

"I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I feel my fate in what I cannot fear.
I learn by going where I have to go.

We think by feeling. What is there to know?
I hear my being dance from ear to ear.
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow."
Excerpt from The Waking (1953) by Theodore Roethke (1908 - 1963, United States)

Theodore Roethke, an American poet, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1954 for his book "The Waking". Read his biography at: http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/13

The full text of The Waking is at: http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-waking/