Teaching What I Need To Learn

Life,

constantly changing;

certainty

only promulgates uncertainty.
 

Resisting change gets us stuck,

not a good place to be;

accept changes in life,

embrace them,

move on,

evolve,

like you are programmed to

No doubt you are a soul of substance,

have seen your shimmering quality

and gravitated to it

since we first met.
 

So often the case

we are last to discover this

about ourselves.
 

Hanging on to old selves

becomes

self-defeating

ultimately leaving us

being,

or

trying to be

someone who is not authentic.

Know when I speak like this,

these are not sagely words of one

perched under a Banyan tree,

but

a neophyte in life,

teaching what I need to learn.

 

Copyright © Henri Ferguson 2003

All rights reserved.

The seed of this was planted in a letter to an old friend. We have corresponded on many life issues, and have in many ways been mirrors for one another. This poem came out of a response I had written. Too much of an opportunist to let these thoughts slip by without getting a few more miles out of them.

 

Written October 25th, 2003