The Provisions of Scholars and Fools

 

"To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else."

  ~Emily Dickinson

 

 

 

Life provides the utter need to struggle
 to sustain its own truest breath

Like a fish squirms out of water
 and a bird works hard to build its secure nest

We are granted its gracious offering
 at the moment of our own birth

And the deep urge to preserve the gift
 is expensive but still it gains more worth

A wise man learns to make it prosper
 fishing for truth that helps him fully thrive

While the fool struggles with the burden
 of unlearned lessons upon his empty line

This world is a deep ocean
 full of opportunities to catch hold of and to keep

It’s a fish that feeds the plenty,
 yet our hands hold the power to use it or set it free.

 

 

 

There is Still Life

To live remains an art which everyone must learn, and which no one can teach. 

 ~Havelock Ellis

There is still life in all the cracked places and areas we cannot see...

and yet there is still wonder spread out before us....

beauty exists there in the quiet light by our side...

and then it spread out before us like a banquet...

....and love has a way of coming back around....

....for through all of the darkness and hunger and hardship

there is still life that we can eat upon for nurishment.

Immersion

"God pours life into death and death into life without a drop being spilled." 

~Author Unknown

 

This life is an endless pool of wonders full of lessons at every splash

we must dive in at the deep end with all the guts and strength we have

life cannot be truly lived observing at the water's edge

you have to utterly submerge until every fiber of your being is wet

it is an exploration that carries one deeper as it goes

a baptismal of guidance more profound as the heavier current flows

so immerse yourself in life like a missionary with a mighty cause

for no one else can swim it for you it's your own gain or your own loss.