THE COURAGE TO BECOME
THE COURAGE TO BECOME
Here I am
Approaching eighty
And I remain
Perfectly incomplete,
Facing my angels and demons,
Trudging and soaring
Through the uncharted
Times and throes
Of my own existence.
What will it take to
Graduate beyond
“looking into the glass darkly?”
What will it take to
Reside consistently
In Nirvana,
“See things face to face”
and
Be completely at peace
With myself
In all circumstances?
Oh, I keep waiting for,
Looking for,
The Golden Ring,
The ring of power
And Wisdom,
And presence,
And perfection.
I venture forward
Through time and hope
Looking for
My own finished product…
When I can finally (!!)
Look at it
Like some perfected portrait,
And say,
“Well done. Its finished!”
Well, really I don’t.
Something in me likes to
Grow,
Attracts the tension between
Here and there,
Abhors the boredom of
Something forever finished.
Perhaps already I am
While I am not
What I shall be.
Perhaps I am not
What I shall never be.
Perhaps, just perhaps,
There will all-ways remain
A transformative perfection
In the core and fabric
Of my obvious and eternal
Becoming.
Does it mean,
Within the
Perfect and complex
imperfections
of my
Uncharted becomings,
that
I am actively present
in the
Awesome grace
Of always Becoming….
Of always….
Being??
While creation
Continues
“from glory to glory,”
through chaos and order,
forever
tapping into this Mysterious More,
I find myself
Caught and blessed
Within the vortex
Of
A breathtaking actuality of being.
Read more of Hal’s poems @: www.persistentpathways.com
TAO: “A good master leads you to the true master within.
Only that master, who is your own true Self, can adequately answer all questions.”
“My religion is to live–and die–without regret.” Milarepa, Tibet’s poet-saint.
