Onward

The current takes us onward

From where we were

To whence we will be

From past

To future

Darkness

To light

Ignorance

To Enlightenment

Birth

To death

Same

To Different

Flowing toward us, as we look back

Away, as we look ahead

Not strictly linear

But like a stream

With eddies, backwashes

Rapids, still pools

Carrying us through life

Always moving

From the moment of Creation

To that of Transformation

And beyond

We ride as in a craft

Perhaps with some limited control

In the moment

But more often simply propelled

By forces we can neither contain nor control

Unable to change the course of where we have been

Nor predict what lies around the next bend

Our “now” being merely where we are

As in the eye of a great hurricane

With the storm lashing around us

Yet being the only place in the great Journey

In which we can act, and learn

Grow, and love

Thus does the Great Current transport us inexorably ahead

To where we are meant to be

By Mike Turner

From: United States

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