we do discover on our own

we don't receive wisdom;
we must discover it
for ourselves
after a journey
that no one can take for us
or spare us.
 ~Marcel Proust




we do discover wisdom,
beginning with a tiny flicker of light
gaining momentum,
with our attending to it

nurturing the light
until it burns our soul
filling up our auric fields
for miles and miles--

a realization to relax any fears
one to allow the release of tears
to fall, and to help grow wild flowers
to forever bless and brighten the field
of our vision, we have started alone

soon to embrace the knowing...
we are all doing this in one fashion or another
and we shall all meet in the field of flowered visions
all of us lit from our hearts cleaving to truths

we have received on our individual journeys
eventually pooling together in one finite center
the circle to include all
in the family of forever unfurling light

just not from an outside source,
other than our inner heart beating
in resonance to rising tides,

hands held with people
we thought were strangers
strangers no longer
as we all walk towards  the fiery  center

no longer holding back the truth
that love and light rise together
above the forever field of greening wonder


Kate Lamberg
12/1/11





'in resonance to rising tides' (long island sound)