Reflections by Jerry Webber


Thursday, October 22, 2009

A Poem about Where You Belong

The years spent building your own castle
will not come back to you;

The stones of your dreams
and the mortar of who you should have been
now blocked in place.

Delight never did live there,
but a dull obligation
to some shadowy ideal
handed to you before
you could refuse to
take it.

This you must get
and come to believe
with your life:

The energy of delight will
carry you home;

all the small things you carry
will be gone
before you arrive,

even the stuttering steps
that are your heritage
cannot keep you -- in the
end -- from the place
you belong.

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