whispered lineage

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