Infinite Journey (poem)
with hypnotic gestures signaling your soul…
Infinite Journey
Windswept images sprinkled along a stretch
mile after mile upon timeless beaches
sandy or rocky but always here or there
to remind us of our brittle mortality
as we seek to understand the infinite mystery.
Destiny is a deep hole — black as a moonless night
extending anonymously from beginning to end
inviting entrance without promise of an exit
but offering hope in the place of failure
and doors to nowhere and everywhere without a key.
Urgings of destiny whisper your given name
lingering seductively on each syllable
with hypnotic gestures signaling your soul
through corridors of confusion to the conclusion
of what has been written on eternal pages of stone.
Step by step and day by day we travel in time
looking for the other that some never find
while we hope for union and comprehension of reason
for living apart from and beyond each other
until the final piece of the puzzle signals the end.
Unison of spirit driven by ignorant desire
carries us onward and outward toward other planes
devoid of the fears we harbor beneath our masks of life
awaiting wondrous recognition and sublime release
so that we may be all that we wish and know we can be.
