Sunday, May 06, 2007
If When You Arrive (poem)
If When You Arrive
If this is what you are wanting,
you must ask for it.
You must go
on hands and knees,
follow the sun in
daylight,
navigate by the stars
at night.
You will be shipwrecked,
drowned,
many times over.
Sometimes burnt to cinder,
dust among the dust.
If, when you get there,
you have forgotten
your question,
why it was you came,
do not worry.
It will not matter.
Now only silence will do.
Dorothy Walters
May 6, 2007
