April 26, 2025

We live to learn to know and trust ourselves
in order to find the way and know it when we do.
We are looking for enlightenment/realization/recognition/
knowing.
And we live lost and adrift,
awash in uncertainty, fear, lethargy, addiction, 
without direction or purpose
"on the heaving waves of the wine-dark sea."

Sex, money, drugs and alcohol are the best we can do.
We know the emptiness of it, 
but we don't know what to do about it.

The systems have failed us.
There has not been one--no, not one--
who knows more than we do to help us find the way.
It is up to us.
We each must find ourselves, know and trust ourselves
in order to find the way and know it when we do.

We have to find/discover our original nature,
our innate virtues--what we do best and enjoy doing most,
our inherent imagination,
our intrinsic intuition.

And hand ourselves over, with liege loyalty
and filial devotion, to ourselves,
and enter the silence, saying, "Let's go!"
And mean it.

The covenant with ourselves has to become 
our adamantine foundation upon which
we will not be moved.

We are One with who we are 
and what is ours to do,
trusting ourselves to the silence
and to what we find there to point the way
in each situation as it arises
as nature--OUR nature--leads the way.

That is what got us here, now, and we did not know
what we were doing.
Now we are listening in the silence
for the next symbol/signal/sign
to light the way.

Trusting ourselves to ourselves,
swearing the oath of allegiance to ourselves,
"To our own self be true!"
And following the way that our experience
and knowledge recognize as our own.
Holding nothing back,
at one with the guide within
on the way that unwinds forever,
at one for as long as it takes.