Something Will Change Me Quotes

“She's a gift, you see,
rare and precious
as wild grass
or heron in flight;
unpredictable,
beyond imitation,
gemstone perfect.
 ”
― Don Hynes, Something Will Change Me: Poems of Hope, Healing, and Personal Transformation

“Against the tide of violence
something spoken from the silence
like an arrow parting air
with the sharpened point of love.”
― Don Hynes, Something Will Change Me: Poems of Hope, Healing, and Personal Transformation

“Let me rise in darkness,
be fed by morning silence
and choose each day to say yes.
 ”
― Don Hynes, Something Will Change Me: Poems of Hope, Healing, and Personal Transformation

“Each day I go to this altar,
emptying the night
bucket after bucket,
until I've space enough
for the morning.”
― Don Hynes, Something Will Change Me: Poems of Hope, Healing, and Personal Transformation

“Down the narrow trail
to the sound of sea lions
barking their belonging,
we wandered into their world,
the one we thought was ours.”
― Don Hynes, Something Will Change Me: Poems of Hope, Healing, and Personal Transformation

“Snow laden trees,
streets washed clean,
the timeless hymnal
open to the sky
in the deep throated
song of winter.”
― Don Hynes, Something Will Change Me: Poems of Hope, Healing, and Personal Transformation

“There's a woman asleep
in the body of salmon
behind the jagged teeth
and furious jaw,
parting the river
with wild desire.”
― Don Hynes, Something Will Change Me: Poems of Hope, Healing, and Personal Transformation

“Daring to raise my eyes,
I call out, a bird-like sound,
giving myself to this day,
abandoning desire
for all except you.”
― Don Hynes, Something Will Change Me: Poems of Hope, Healing, and Personal Transformation

“Something dark and unseen
breaks into awareness,
bursting like a mushroom
with the full throat of desire.
 ”
― Don Hynes, Something Will Change Me: Poems of Hope, Healing, and Personal Transformation

“You’d think the earth
would long ago surrender
but instead she flowers,
rising from her meager dirt
to fill the sky with color.”
― Don Hynes, Something Will Change Me: Poems of Hope, Healing, and Personal Transformation

“I climb the vine-covered walls
using stillness as a braided rope,
and drop like a cat
into the garden of the eternal.”
― Don Hynes, Something Will Change Me: Poems of Hope, Healing, and Personal Transformation

“Holding to each other
we burn back the pressing dark
with the fire we've tended,
alone together beside the river,
quiet as the trees.”
― Don Hynes, Something Will Change Me: Poems of Hope, Healing, and Personal Transformation

“In the embrace of silence,
just me and a few words
waiting in the shadows,
loitering in the dark
like hungry lovers.
 ”
― Don Hynes, Something Will Change Me: Poems of Hope, Healing, and Personal Transformation

“Then we will not speak
nor write a single word
for on that surging tide
silence will prevail.
 ”
― Don Hynes, Something Will Change Me: Poems of Hope, Healing, and Personal Transformation

“There is the land
green and rising
and there is the heart
empty of longing,
with room at last
for silence.
 ”
― Don Hynes, Something Will Change Me: Poems of Hope, Healing, and Personal Transformation

“The tides of gain and loss
shape and reshape the world,
while below brilliant star fish
breathe in water,
turning salt and sea
to light.”
― Don Hynes, Something Will Change Me: Poems of Hope, Healing, and Personal Transformation

“Like the ancients
I leave no trace
but the imprint of kindness,
left on the souls
I’ve dared to love.”
― Don Hynes, Something Will Change Me: Poems of Hope, Healing, and Personal Transformation