You can’t play hide and seek
with yourself forever.
Eventually the thunder reaches into
your secret hollows and
slumbering roots.
Eventually
the years jump out to meet us,
whether we accept them or not.
The rest of the task is learning
which side
a gate opens out on while
unlearning
what it meant to be lost.
J. Pratt-Walter, © 2019
For some reason, this one touched my emotions and brought me to tears. I don't feel I have been hiding from myself, but I think it is experiences of feeling somewhat emotionally disconnected and spiritually homeless in this world that causes my heart to resonate with this poem.
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