Divine Will

DIVINE WILL

As I bow,

before Your Shrine

I must sort

What’s Your will

What’s mine

We seem to think

We know what’s best

Inclined towards comfort

Towards rest

Your will may not

Be what we think

Bringing us

To the very brink

If left to our devices

We would follow

Our self-directed vices

Or we sit idle

As time goes by

Looking ambivalent

Half-hearted, asking why

Year after year

Time marches on

Tear after tear

We don’t move on

We ask for direction

But when it appears

Use deflection

For it seems half-hearted

In our intention

When something appears

To be true

What is it we do?

Attack it anew

Change, is what we fear

For we hold on

To what is dear

Yet what we grasp

Is ephemeral and

Will not long last

We must discern

And in time learn

That a step in the unknown

Is on the path shown

And in time our characters

Doth hone

And the less likely

Out plight bemoan

And in the end

We will have grown

-Shiidon, February 2011

Waiting for change and resisting change at the same time seems to be a common theme. It seems at times that we sit and wait for things to change, or worse yet we get complacent in our current affairs. When we wait for change and don't take steps, change will occur but not necessarily in a way and manner that is best suited for us. When we get complacent we let opportunities, whether it is places, work or people go by and in the end it is our loss. We look for all the reasons why that place/task or person is not right, yet it is all from the familiarity of our comfort zone.

Strive, reach out, dare. Live in the now, not the past. Live in the now, not the future we think is ours. Hopes mean nothing if we don't actively step out of our comfort zone.