ASYMPTOTE

When you are searching for a life,
dying in the pursuit
is an acceptable outcome.

For, it is only in the reaching
of the search
that Life is found.

It is only in the striving
that revelation is bestowed.
Those are most admired who cling to
Truth.

It may not keep you alive.
But it will save you.

The truth is that there is only the search.
The struggle.
The resistance.

No matter the life we are born into, we have to choose:
ease and obedience to that which has shaped us,

or a new path
where we forge a new shape for ourselves
through the fires of life.

Because there is that mountaintop.
And the only way to the promise land is up that way.

See it up there?
Such a long way up.

And we can reach towards it,
and will it closer
and climb,

small step by small step

maybe we’ll reach the top.
Maybe we’ll just reach.