Life Awaits

" Every door is another passage, another boundary .....

  we have to go beyond. "

                                            RUMI

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I used to think

That life was like a journey down a road

You followed it, wherever it led

Yes there were surprises around some corners

And from time to time choices

To go this way

Or that

Stretching out ahead

visible

to my searching eyes

But now it seems life is more like wandering through a maze

of hallways and doors

you cannot see what is ahead

hallways end

and we have no choice

but to find doorways

through which we must go, if the journey is to continue

Oh yes, we can quit

And sit in futility in the hallway

Surrounded by institutional green

immersed in sterility and futility

but doorways beckon

we are not sure what is behind them

but we must make a choice

and enter

into what is next

another hall

another door

and the journey goes on!

life awaits