Found
POETRY
Ned Abenroth
12/6/20231 min read
Beyond the death of your tired dream, a
listlessness threatens to engulf you.
Let it.
When the wind won't
blow, better to
rest, than feverishly
row a thousand miles
against the current.
This blasted stillness is your
deepest ally-- In going
nowhere against your will,
A deeper movement
makes way beneath the surface.
And if you're blessed with
slack enough sails, a
useless rudder, and the
darkness of a
new moon, the
Celestial map may point you in
directions beyond the
horizon of your knowing
Perhaps in this morass,
like a breeching of a great whale in a
glowing tide,
it will finally
rush up to you from
Poseidon's caves:
The dream.
The direction.
The destination...
are
all
gone
sunk
down in
inky depths
The tired dream is gone...
Yet
YOU
remain.
Your dreams, however big,
could never contain the
whole
of you. Your
Wholeness,
bursting and beautiful, is the only
Wild Guide, who can be
entrusted with the helm.
And!
Suddenly waking into the
Beauty of all you'd overlooked, you
Apprehend Who's
Apprehended you.
If your sails never fill again, it would
make no
great difference...for
you are here, for
the first time, you
are finally here.
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