Friday, September 27, 2019
Arrival––poem by Dorothy
Arrival
This is the time for you
to go to the place you
have dreamed of,
longed for
so long.
Yes, you have traveled
now
for eons,
many incarnations,
lives,
Have journeyed
for eras,
taken false starts,
wrong turns,
futile efforts.
Sometimes you found
a place to rest for a time,
to enjoy the palm trees
or else the pines,
let the wind
lift your hair
in a kind
of love stroke,
found companions
who loved and
then betrayed
(your karma),
but then you always
went on,
and soon fell again
into another ditch,
met another suitor full
of promises.
But you
did not become cynical,
renounce all human connection,
hunch forever
in the corner resentful and sad.
Now is the time
to sail into the port
you have long imagined,
enter the kingdom
with your name,
decked with your rewards,
waiting only to be claimed.
Dorothy Walters
September 27, 2019
