Tag: life lessons

Familiar Wisdom

On a journey
To a strange land
With strange customs
Where nothing seemed familiar

I re-encountered Buddha
Long obscured for me
Made strange by the confines
Of my culture familiar

As the days go by
Time chips away
At memories
Falling away
As flakes of rust
From old iron

As the years proceed
The man I was
Drifts further
And further
Into the shadows
Until, in the mirror
There is only
The man who is

I love old wood
Its warmth
Its texture

I love the way time
And the elements enhance
Its beauty
Its value

Sometimes
Life goes
Off the rails

I can let
The consequences
Lay where they come to rest

I reach too far
And get blown back

But that’s OK

Too far
Is simply a place
I haven’t learned to reach

Just yet

It has been said
Space is the final frontier
But space is merely infinite
While the depths of being
Are unfathomable

I like a moody shore
A place with surprises
And some risk
The tide may catch you up
In some small sandy bay
If you’re not paying attention

I suppose that says a lot
About my life

To my eye
The wall is solid
To my hand
The rock, impenetrable

To a neutrino
The space between the atoms
Seems like the emptiness
Between the stars

I followed the footfalls
Through grass-laden dunes
Where grey, heavy mist
Permeated the sand

I wondered who’d been here
Where had they gone
From where had they come

I followed the footfalls
Until their abrupt ending

Swallowed up by the sea

Travelling
I began to believe
In parallel worlds

Never did I suspect
So many realities
Could coexist