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How does one achieve harmony between the self and the world?
THE WISDOM OF SURRENDER
I never thought I would live long enough
to have “twilight years”
yet here I am amid gathering shadows
a vessel of time cloaked in gratitudefor decades I fought against the current
gripping, reaching, refusing to bend
but the river is wiser
now I yield, and it carries me homeI am who I’m meant to be
weathered by time, the damage speaks,
etched by sorrow and healed by grace,
each ache a story, each scar a truthI move with the rhythm of the cosmos,
flowing over a jagged life,
past the echoes of storms that rumbled my bones,
lighter at last, unburdened, freeI am the keeper of stories now
whispered dreams, moonlit tears,
bittersweet joys,
unfolding them like petals at dawnI stand on the precipice of eternity,
at peace
held by the hush of forever
there is nothing to be but this
nothing to give but love
Amor Fati