A Life’s Journey

As I travelled down the path of life

And milestones flew quickly past

I stopped today to take a look

Where I’ve gone and so very fast.

Where I started and where I reached

Did not seem so far apart

And so I tried to somehow see

Where all I’ve been since the start.

Some of the journey was quickly gone

Though at the time it seemed so slow

In trying to figure what I wanted from life

And where it was I wished to go.

Someone said one thing and others said another

But the one that I should have heard

Lay buried somewhere deep inside

And seemed silent like a faraway bird.

And so I waited to do my thing

But all the while things got done

For I had no idea what it was I wished

Then how could that battle be ever won?

And then I found the comfort of words

That I could twist and turn and shape

So I picked them like a child does playdough

And what they formed left me surprised, agape.

I started losing myself in a forest of words

As I walked through serene verdant greens

Sometimes in joy, sometimes in fear

Depending on the forest’s unfolding scenes.

Soon, very soon, I became lost to the world

And the world became lost to me

But somewhere I began to find myself

And discovered how I wished to be.

And now as I gaze back to see where I was

I find it was mostly the forest here

Where I lost most of my fortune

But I also lost my greed and fear.

The milestones don’t really count for much

Nor does the forest where I have been

For the question is not how far I went

The question is what all I’ve seen.

- rajyogi

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