Lessons

I have learned many things on this journey,

learning to be quiet and silent,

to let go and give up on fettered complaints,

for the future awaits and healing begins, where the sand meets the shore,

where the water meets the wind, and what blew around before,

for we are so wrapped up in the hurricane of constant plagues of self absorptions,

focus, lack, delayed happiness,

there is more? Is there more?

Than turning around streets and asking questions, summarizing problems…. gone

memories and thoughts to form the steel bars to block peace and rest from the tired man,

 

I have learned many lessons,

taught on walks to the lake, and by the colors of the sky,

by the wilderness and the mountains, by the days gone by,

by love and acceptance, by time, and quiet bandaged wounds,

and to see the choice to smile when all around is gloom,

I have learned many things,

in this world so chaotic and fast,

to sit and be still, embrace mystery rather than fact,

to let the fall’s leaves cover me, and the moss to grow black,

to liberate the mind from the needles, not so comfortable like acupuncture on the brain,

that accuse us and condemn us, leaving us so lame,

To sit and see the stars circling, to smell the fire burning, to walk the voyage further,

to carry what is with me, to learn new lessons, to love in new ways,

to share, to recieve new things,

to take time, to rest, and feed hope’s coals to faiths fires,

to burn a little brighter in the dark of the world,

which fumes might guide the lonely traveller and bring the outcast home,

and yet the mystery continues, my body rests again….

yes I have learned many things….

yes I have learned many things….