Your Real Adventure

Dec 27, 2023

to lose the madness
you must let go
of all the things
you tell yourself
you ought to be

you must die
to all artifice
forsake
every false display

these conversations
you’ve been having
are not yours
you were made
for other words

your whole body
weeps with it
this unbearable absence
this distant ache
this holy summoning
to your real adventure

your mistake
has been to believe
you have no choice

just go

follow the scent
of your secret desire
come by way
of the wild paths
where the free air
still burns

go far
into that forbidding
landscape
then ask: Who are you?

and be that.