Chasm

Sitting, waiting, unengaged, hoping for that moment that pure attentiveness will awaken with in me, setting free those lost souls that are stretched out behind me in a sea of misery that defines the mediocrity of life in choice. Defining what is the nature of life, and why does it always seem to echo across a chasm that has stretched too far out of my reach. The bridges are all gone and a man in size and shape only sits on the far side, contemplating the voices that shout resoundingly through his mind to stand, walk, run, blindly towards the undefined here and now. To only press towards today, and leave the past with the future. It is not so much that the answers are not there, carved into mountains of granite and clay to marvel at in completion. The true and real challenge being that the questions are not there waiting for you, placed down by some cosmic divinity; rather you are left to hear the echo’s of his laughter as you struggle to comprehend this true mistake of human nature.

The chasm widens the future catches back up to you bringing the past in tow. You cannot escape any of the moments that come crashing down on you. Silent screams fill your lungs as you buckle under the weight of choice. Free will forever rationalized behind obligation and place. Again your mind screams back against the flood. Stand! It yells, quoting Whitman, demanding from you the manuscript of your epitaph. Stand! Tall and blind. Stand, arms stretched out trying to bridge the very chasm that you have stared out across. Stand! And rage against the natural laws of earth.

What more can be asked of you, turn this small insignificant form of human quality into a man. Into a person, of perception and depth, of understanding. There are no more spaces unexplored as those precious few move away from the masses of ghosts waiting to suckle off of your own intentions. Walk with the confidence awarded to the few who have finally found today and allowed for the past and future to wait patiently for you to visit them. Finding all the answers right in front of you only because you choose to ask the right questions. There are no contradictions in life, you must always reevaluate your premise…