WAITING



Beloved children
Before your pioneers
Found the vastness of this land
None knew the forests lakes and mountains
And the wide Pacific not yet seen by man
But all was here waiting
Now as all set out to pioneer
The vast lands of the soul
Know I have fortified your inner will
With Lewis and Clark spirit that
Now can wake in all of you
I know what lies on all horizons
Of all journeys you will take
As you cross the mountains streams
And valleys of your life to explore
The vastness of your inner human land
To reach the far shores of your destiny
And while your pioneers could only know
What lay ahead maybe from Indian tales
Through my many sons and daughters
Everywhere I’ve told many times
What you will see along the way
And what is waiting at your journey’s end
The vast ocean of heaven’s harmony
Where you begin new journeys
In the arms of My eternity

About this poem

A caterpillar does not know it will become a butterfly, but its genes already contain this waiting destiny. It is the same with human body caterpillars on their journeys to transform into spirit and access the skies of heaven. I wrote the poem as a metaphor for the journey of self discovery.

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Written on October 15, 2022

Submitted by choward22 on October 12, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABCDEFGHIJKDLMNCOPQRSTUOVO
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 867
Words 169
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 26

Christian Howard

Totally eclectic life, song writer, author, poet, love physics, private pilot owned my own planes, had classic car restoration business. There is more about me on the website for my book www.isternityhere.com/about more…

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