It’s Never Too Late to Begin - Alla Renée Bozarth

[Larry Robinson]

WeIt’s Never Too Late to Begin 

Every human bond,
whether with a person of any species— 
that is, an organic living being—
or with something whose life is mysterious and secretly self-defined
such as a mountain or star—

or an image or an idea
or a being outside of time,
a dweller in realms of mind
or an inhabitant of spirit—
a task or place or project,
or an object that occupies a space in time and heart or mind—

every bond has its own

   landscape

 mythscape

        	 inscape/escape

          	  soulscape

and is a place of possibility to infinity, 
including the possibility of ending.

If endings come, retreat to some chosen, known haven, 
a healing place where you are known
and never (or rarely and benevolently) judged—
a place where you are loved beyond your own powers to love yourself 
or sometimes others—


And in that place of befriending,
whether friendship or flowerscape,
innerscape or dreamscape or meaningplace  of work,
      or in the floral-colored waves of ocean 
                or many-mountained forest light and darkness—  
                          enter the beautiful rooms in the house of your soul.

Learn by being there
       what peace can be,
               what love can come to the quiet heart,
how well your soul can feel in unmolested circumstance and solitude,
and how deeply and fully and eventually, happily,
you can become yourself again,
or perhaps for the first time.

        -	 Alla Renée Bozarth
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