Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Destiny (part two)

Your destiny is laid before your feet
Clear as a summer's path through golden fields
Clear as a shining star in cloudless night
And clearer still

Like the path of the sun from dusk till dawn
Like the tides in the ocean, like the moon
And its reflection in the stillness of a lake
And clearer still

You are but what you want to find when searching high and low
From East to West from deepest sea to highest peak
From smallest into smaller still
With no place else to go

You search in vain, yet feverishly you look for what you lost
You look for what you can not find
But what you want the most

For you but search for searches sake
In order not to find and even as you look for things
Outside your holy mind
You do not see that everything you looked for all your life
Is here, right there in front of you to end your endless strive

You will but weep when finally your eyes set on your self
And find in utter loveliness the love you but withheld
From you and only you for all of it is laid
In front of you to carry you beyond the world you made

Fear not that loneliness awaits you at your place of rest
For everyone you ever met has saved your kindnesses 
And laid them at your feet as gifts

When you arrive at what you are
Your journey will be gone
The journey ends where it began
And all that's left is everything
You thought you lost but won.

Your destiny is laid before your feet
And even that is not the truth
The path through golden fields
The shining star in cloudless night
Is all but part of you.

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