Don’t wait
traveler
for the ride before it comes
you’ve already seen so many
take your place before you
all those still yet to come –
pilgrims on the mountain sides
highways and arterials
streaming amoebic duty
Egyptian files of willing workers
cracking heads in the crush
to make or save civilization.
Where do you go
to take your place?
the pure space to receive you
bearing a child laying stone
putting down what foundations
to impermanence?
There will be no haste
to carry you there sooner
than you need arrive.
you are there already
turning memory’s soil
hitting metaphysical paydirt
in the hour of the sun…
Let go your belongings
drop the needless wait
noplace to stay or go
On the Way.
Paris, September 2010
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creative poem..
love the word play.
beautiful sentiments and wise hints.
analogies are on point 🙂 clever
http://lynnaima.wordpress.com/2010/09/26/living-in-the-shadows-of-blackness/
for us to learn life, we must experience to be lost on our way. Nice words you got here dear. 😉