almost to the top—
like being almost happy
when you almost kiss
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almost to the top—
like being almost happy
when you almost kiss
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged allowing, goal, path, poem, poetry, purpose on July 4, 2013| 1 Comment »
The path is the last impediment to the path.
—Lama Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche
The path had not ended.
We had not arrived
anywhere except in a stand
of spruce where a new path
sprung to the left, and another
narrower path led to the right.
The main path curved up and
around the corner. I did not want
to turn around. I wanted to
arrive somewhere—to have
a marker of some kind. A view,
perhaps, or a giant stone.
Or a field of pink Indian paintbrush.
As it was, we turned back down
at the spruce glade where the paths
criss crossed. We all know we can never go back.
But this path gave the impression
that all was the same, that nothing
had changed between the time we
hiked up and the time we chose
to hike back down. But everything
had changed in the way that everything
does. And we didn’t notice it.
As we seldom do.