"We Grow Accustomed to The Dark" by Emily Dickinson

Dan Keusal, M.S., LMFT

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"We grow accustomed to the Dark"

(Emily Dickinson, poem 419)

We grow accustomed to the Dark –

When light is put away –

As when the Neighbor holds the Lamp

To witness her Goodbye –

A Moment – We uncertain step

For newness of the night –

Then – fit our Vision to the Dark –

And meet the Road – erect –

And so of larger – Darkness –

Those Evenings of the Brain –

When not a Moon disclose a sign –

Or Star – come out – within –

The Bravest – grope a little –

And sometimes hit a Tree

Directly in the Forehead –

But as they learn to see –

Either the Darkness alters –

Or something in the sight

Adjusts itself to Midnight –

And Life steps almost straight.

"We Grow Accustomed To The Dark"

(poem 419)

by Emily Dickinson

from

The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

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Dan Keusal, MS, LMFT, Psychotherapist. (206) 523-1340. Email: dankeusal@dankeusal.com.