Pushing up against the borders
of everything you know.
Soft approaching of the threshold,
knowing where you need to go.
No.
It was never going to be easy,
but it was never going to be hard.
Resistance is you,
pushing back at you.
You know this to be true in your heart.
Recognize the interference
of a drawn and subtle world.
Know the word but need to hear it.
The only thing that sees to stem the hurt.
Pain is often an indication
that you’re moving on the path.
If you can finally see the mountain,
then you are almost there, at last.
Most people give up
at the first signs
of pain and failure,
but not you.
Why do you persist?
Something in you
keeps driving you forward,
as if you’re almost
learning why
you exist.
Pain did not dissuade you.
Loss and shame could not contain you.
Made a breakthrough,
now you’re moving towards
a new way of saying “Thank-you!”
For the trials
for the hardship,
as you’re reaching for the door.
About to step thorough
to a place where you
won’t be you, anymore.
Someone else.
Somewhere else.
Another self.
Pain is evolution.
Growing is a tribulation.
We come from the Earth
to return to who we are.
Our place of birth
is not what we know,
but out between the stars.
Struggle on,
beautiful creature.
Divine journey brings you home.
You must do it on your own
to learn you’re not alone.
Let go of all your fear.
You’re coming through clear.
DJR – 2023
