Recognition

by

Frank Valentyn

Be grateful that you missed those golden opportunities
those junctures, whatever reason you appointed
all those rearward beckoning moments, chances,
the ones you never took

Perceptions you had of divisions in contingency
that you never explored further
inclinations you wished you'd had at those times,
which weren't there

Stances you could have used so fruitfully
but could not realise in the spectrum of your attitudes
the "if I'd only said" and "only done" and "only seen"
which you did not - and could not have because you didn't

You thought you saw the path
but the path did not see you
You thought you knew the outcome
but those outcomes knew your absence
You wished a determined cause and course
but the one that took you was the stronger

Do not regret the way that became you
the thought that moulded you
the sight that saw you
the course that preceded you, unseen working
the compass within you - that you knew not
the you that had to be - and had not recognised

And when you wonder who you are
why you are the way you are
the when and where and whence you are
allow the All to reason
greet in free, fearless and friendly recognition
the sense and need that shaped you

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from: Mesa, AZ, US

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