The Passage of Flight

The Passage of Flight

The sands of time

keep shifting

what was familiar 

is made new again

the path obscured

I don't know 

where I am going

and place my trust

in my senses 

reaching deep within

listen, feel, taste

to find space

without losing myself

when I make the first step

I will have defined 

my path

When you realise that things are no longer the same, that whatever was is either no longer valid or is lost, it is a struggle to let go of old thoughts, old dogmas, old patterns. 

On one hand it is painful to realise that the feeling of security is gone and a sense of vulnerability and loss has taken its place. On the other hand, this new reality creates a new alertness, an awareness, a new potential. 

Questions rise that aim to fill the void. What do I do next? Where do I go? What is my path? The feeling of being alive becomes strongest when you realise that you have no answers. In fact, you never had any answers, you were dulled into thinking that you knew your path, when this was a combination of familiarity and a false sense of security that you were immune against change. 

The answers you seek are of a different kind. Instead of creating new false securities with fake plans, you reach deeply within, and you seek and find the internal trust that your path is yours. It only needs your first step to materialise.