Many a meditation spent in contemplation upon your palm.
\nReturning year after year, grown a little older, a little wiser, a little stronger.
\nBringing back to you new triumphs, experiments with danger,
\nAnd permanent sorrows of the heart.<\/p>\n
All the while my formative mind yearning for answers,
\nbrimming with a curiosity about the future,
\nstill believing in na\u00efve ideas of destiny,
\nand trying to foresee any untold plans you had for me.<\/p>\n
And the breeze from the lake would whisper through the cedar trees,
\nThe cold familiar aroma of earth would collect upon my tongue,
\nAnd I would add its strength to my heart, to forever carry into the unknown.<\/p>\n
It wasn’t until I grew much older that I realized no one was watching.
\nIn all these years it had only been me listening, only me speaking.
\nOnly me driving my fears and worries deep into the stone upon which I rested,
\nBleeding my want for purpose into pools at my feet
\nAnd leaving it to soak into the soil beneath me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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