What's the Vision?

Photo: (c) Jamie K. Reaser

What’s the vision? What do you want so see?

What happens when there isn’t an answer?

What happens when you’ve lost the trail

and your sense of destiny?

If you don’t like it, that’s fine. I don’t like it either,

some things need to change, but resistance isn’t

an agent, it’s one act. If you stop something from

going there, you need to decide where you want

it to go instead. Where? Where are we going

instead?

Sometimes things need to fall apart. I do sometimes.

It’s the only way to let go and grow. Ask the caterpillars

on the wilting pipevine or the tadpole in the puddle on

the hottest day of the year. Something beckons for

an ending that’s worth all the risks in the world. There’s

another form to be instead.

What’s the vision? What do you want so see?

What happens when there isn’t an answer?

What happens when you’ve lost the trail

and your sense of destiny?

I hear your anger and frustration. I hear the silence

of overwhelm. I hear your pleading for this to stop,

for it to go away. And, that’s okay. No is a worthy

word when its time has justly come. But, yes must

know where and when to arrive and how to map

the way, somewhere.

What’s the vision? What do you want so see?

What happens when there isn’t an answer?

What happens when you’ve lost the trail and

your sense of destiny?

I’ve been listening for an answer, but no one seems

to know that there’s a question. I see you standing

up. I see you sitting down. I see you lying in the way.

Good! And, then? Where are we going? Where are

all of us going? How do we play follow the leader

like this? It’s not the way I remember.

What’s the vision? What do you want so see?

What happens when there isn’t an answer?

What happens when you’ve lost the trail and

your sense of destiny?

What’s the vision? What do you want so see?

What happens when there isn’t an answer?

What happens when you’ve lost the trail and

your sense of destiny?

© 2019/Jamie K. Reaser

From "The Song Book" (a work in progress)

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