Tell Me

Tell Me

Everywhere holds that potential that we seek,
So forgive yourself of such trepidations
That shake your mind. When they come,
You will find forgiveness hard, but once done,
You can smile in the face of your own undoing.

Why try to change what happens?
When it is done, sit and watch it as a success,
Regardless of the means to your ends,
You are meeting them. If you don’t see it yet,
Just watch the deeper parts of your mind.

It makes me smile to look at the things I say are hard,
When anything can be the same; it’s my view
That changes, even more than my actions,
And while I lament the lulls of my pride,
Pride doesn’t breed anything.

If I am in that calmer place that we spoke of,
Then I will stop the search for what I do not yet
Understand. Listen to the voice; the only thing that
Forgives myself, even when I can’t do it myself:
Such laughs are futile. Laugh.

At the end of this journey, I will look back
And smile, at the things that gave me such grief.
Humility has practiced this since our dawn.
Before we understood our own actions,
The road may have been softer,

But it did not tell us so much.


** written while travelling in Laos, 2008 **


PrioriThought 2009