Into The Morning

Do we really believe

that things dream their proper dreams

that we yearn for what we should desire

that we fall in love in the correct season 

which has been laid forth for love 

do we believe that we can 

rescue ourselves from the dark oceans

because we think that we are 

good at navigation 

or good at recognizing stars in the dark

or good at finding our way 

which are all ways of saying 

there is something that I know and that 

makes the world a tiny bit

more safe for me 

it is together that the world becomes

a tiny bit more safe

it is our sharing of knowledge 

that helps us continue this race 

to the end of days 

without sliding from the 

face of the mountain 

where the ice has encircled the stone

and the earth to make the 

dangerous path unfit for our wandering 

there are a thousand pages 

of knowledge that I have 

set in the heart of me to 

make our world safer 

let me write these poems 

again and again to all of you 

so you can profit from the 

glimmers of understanding that I 

hauled out of the deep places

of the earth and water 

I do not know very much about wisdom

but I am trying to learn 

how to carry it from the night

into the morning. 

Inspired by the poem “Desconocer que el río es una espada” by Roberto Juarroz.

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