Learn to Wait

“I have a friend I’ve never seen, he hides his head inside a dream.” From “Only Love Can Break Your Heart” by Neil Young.

Can’t wait to start middle school

Can’t wait to start high school

Can’t wait to start college

Can’t wait to get a job

Can’t wait to get married

Can’t wait to buy a house

Can’t wait to have children

Can’t wait for the children to grow up

Can’t wait to retire

Can’t wait to die

Die?

Redolent of past deaths

Pick up your empty scabbard

Rattle it rattle it

Change your heart

Face the forces and grab at clouds

Defy the whispering winds that call you

Unto a new day be born

Reborn

As a being of depth and meaning

Rail at the wrongs and make them right

Hop to

You musn’t live by rote

Memorize your dreams 

Don’t rely on your blueprints 

Dwell on the everdayness of soaring

And light the candles of the great sweeping fullness of eternal smoky joy

You deserve the best

Only you need to know it

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