When you look back,
do not feel as if you must embrace
all that weighs you down, but seize
again with loving energy those moments of glory
you relinquished in your haste to move on, beyond.

When you look inside yourself,
gently acknowledge all that has not risen
to your higher self, then turn to embrace full
the finer filaments of being through which you
changed a life and perhaps, in time, the world.

When you look beyond yourself
and feel afresh your insignificance,
celebrate the majesty of all the oceans and lands
you have yet to experience, yet forget not the road
you have traveled and what company you have known.

When you look forward,
worry not about all you leave behind.
Travel light with what has mattered most
and clear a space, becoming ready at last to receive
abundant blessing rushing now to meet you on your way.