Navigations

Put down your burden
           and accept the comforts of the night
Live for the joy
           of the breathing rose and ignore
the slow tyranny of the day
           your hand can turn nothing to perfection
the secret lies in your heart
           in the deep codes of your nature

Your soft flesh is the embodiment
           of your thirsting soul that longs
for moments of escape
           but only love can pull you
out of the densities of time
           that would embroil you
in a web of failure

The firmament is within you
           so too the stars so too
the tideless oceans
           that you must navigate
so too the only words
           that can bring you to yourself
This is the true discovery
           the continent that you contain :
disdain all other mysteries

John Lyons