11-4-23

Today I return to the landscape to understand

How well beauty and sadness go hand in hand.

The life-giving sunlight, the peaceful evening stars,

The soul-moving moonlight, the dreams that reveal my scars.

The tears and the smiles that enrich our day,

The love for others, who must find their own way.

I must step away often from a world of accomplishment and appetite,

And connect to the world within, beyond wrong or right.

For peace cannot be learned, or found in my mind,

But the peace in my heart will take loneliness, and courage to find.