Burden’s Insight

How rapid their collection
From nasty medicines
Cloaked with mother’s smile
To spoonful upon mouthfuls,
Handfuls to bucketsful,
Becoming boulders of experience
Upon one’s shoulders.

How innocent they approach,
These illusions of surety.
Where certainty of rest and peace
Evaporates like vanishing rabbits in a hat.

Life’s landscape

A parent’s belief,
A child’s trust,
A teacher’s urging,
A boss’s mind-game,
A relationship’s oasis.

Eventually

The undulating future flattens,
Erosion’s desert wind catches up,
The parched soul forgets thirst,
Realizes that which weighs down its back
Has made but a packhorse of the seeker.

Nodding exhaustion’s acquiescence,
Hauntings swirl upward,
Sands of the past
Readily make way for tomorrow’s footprints.

For the fortunate

Insight makes light the burden,
Revealing future’s road paved with perception,
Rousing the traveler from a nightmarish-mirage

To an awakening insight,

Reality’s embrace of certitude

Becoming a oneness with imagination,

A lifting of the burden,

An awakening of strength.