Tag: Yellowstone National Park

Shadow in the Mist

Sometimes
I seem
Even to myself
As a shadow
In the mist

Irresolute
Unfulfilled
Incomplete

I remind myself
Step
Into my being
Out of the shadows
Beyond the mist

Steadfast
Manifest
Consummate

The sky
And Earth
On fire

Like your touch
Trailing a line
Along my flesh

I love finding
Improbable places
Where my reason
And imagination
Are equally taxed

When the unimaginable
Becomes reasonable
Imagination soars

Deep inside the Earth
Fire and water converge
Vapour in the sky

I learn to let life flow where it must
Knowing, like water, it can only go
Where the landscape allows it

Water will not run uphill
It will not run fast across a plain
It will not run at all
Where no rain falls

Sometimes
It takes a lot of exploring
To find the comfortable path

But the comfortable path
Is not always the best path
Or the true path
So I try to remember
Keep exploring

Give the barest trickle
Ample time to act
And it can build
Mountains