Poetry from the Borderlands

On this road you will go nowhere without effort.
Lay down your troubles and worries.

It’s time to step out of mediocrity into challenge.
Serving your sour pretensions will not impress anyone.

From the dust of roads, know your reasons for going.
Walk so that the news of your Seeking is good news.

Do not fear silence. It is another door to the ineffable.
It’s the secret noise of loving that matters most.

Beware of anyone whose claims of certainty
follow the road of vengeance.

To live in fear is to live life half. Leap into the Wilderness.
Run naked with your lover on the rim of the world.

~Marc A. Crowley