Wilderness


"There is a Wilderness inside us all
and that Wilderness knows the Secrets of our Silence
During our lifetimes we visit there
seeking answers to half formed questions,
Listening with deaf ears to the Universal Silence,
Sometimes lost and wandering
Sometimes sitting at an Oasis of Truth
quenching our thirsts from a Lake of Knowledge,
We may spend days, minutes, hours journeying
through valleys of self doubt or sadness
not knowing if an answer will come,
Then, in an instant, we emerge, stronger, more assured,
and only the Wilderness knows the Truth it spoke
in Silence, in Thought, in Feeling, in Secret.
And now, we also know the Truth
that can only be acted upon, rather than spoke"