POETRY | WISDOM

The Path Of Unravelling Youth

A poem

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is it possible to walk through youth
with the wisdom touted beyond this road?

with the wisdom that will rest on you
when the body collapses
and you are on the mountaintop…
where your elder self
your soul
your untethered self
sits
as an eastern sun
rising
rising over the horizon
settling in its place
illuminating the western treetops
illuminating the ones who walk underneath them
illuminating its own tethered self

look to the mountain where you have settled
look up to yourself
what have you loosened from your grip?
what treasure (that you have cherished)
do you no longer carry,
yet somehow you seem stronger?
what did you pick up?
what did you gather around you
and cloak yourself with?