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WindWalker
Senior Member

since 2001-10-12

Posts 1218

0 posted 2009-07-02 08:54 PM

Choose Carefully, Tread Lightly

Choose carefully your time and space...
may it always be by choice, never by force
where you find yourself expressing
with your body the shape of your mind.

All have a place in the puzzle of Earth,
though few find it, and many suffer
following the dreams of others,
in greed and schemes and half-baked hopes
that come to nothing in the end.

Choose carefully your sacred place
and tread lightly - or not at all
for not all of it can hold your weight
nor fulfill the desires of your heart:
Be aware of all the limitations --
nature is but a child - willing but weak.

Choose carefully where your eyes rest
and do not hold what is there with money
or even in dream or memory.
For what is held on to, always dies,
but what remains free, always lives.

Choose carefully where you put your paddle,
disturb the waters not, go gently and silent
whether the water be calm or stormy;
whether it be muddy or clear --
be not the one who upsets the balance:
you will be well repaid when your turn comes
to lay at rest all that you chose to pass by.

Choose carefully and be aware,
but do not hang on, you are a bird on the wing
and how swiftly will Autumn come
and the call of migration pull you away
perhaps never to return: let the rains of winter
wash away your nest of mud and sticks.

Midnitesun

Member Empyrean

since 2001-05-18

Posts 28647
Gaia

1 posted 2009-07-02 09:14 PM

The perfect read for me tonight.
Thank you, for letting me walk the pathway alongside you.

secondhanddreampoet
Member Ascendant

since 2006-11-07

Posts 6394
a 'Universalist' !

2 posted 2009-07-02 09:43 PM

this is kind of a neo-Desiderata (for the 21st. century
and approaching end of the Mayan calendar) ... well done!

I am particularly fond of the beginning:

"Choose carefully your time and space...
may it always be by choice, never by force
where you find yourself expressing
with your body the shape of your mind.

All have a place in the puzzle of Earth,
though few find it, and many suffer
following the dreams of others..."

serious, sustained applause for this 'penning' !

steavenr
Member Elite

since 2003-11-17

Posts 4058

3 posted 2009-07-02 11:13 PM

"Choose carefully your sacred place
and tread lightly - or not at all
for not all of it can hold your weight
nor fulfill the desires of your heart:
Be aware of all the limitations --
nature is but a child - willing but weak. "

...lots of insight in this well-written stanza...nice work...

Marchmadness
Member Rara Avis

since 2007-09-16

Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California

4 posted 2009-07-05 01:54 PM

I especially love the last verse of this wise and beautiful write.
Ida

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