Living On the Boundary

Rev. Jeffrey Symynkywicz, February 16, 2003

Perhaps it is that which we keep hidden in fear
that is our true light;
perhaps it is that which we fear the most
that is our truest, deepest friend.

Let the lion out of the cage;
Uncover your light from under that bushel.
The gods are trying to tell you something
in every aspect of the life you hide,
in every fear that you apprehend.

Life is not lived on the surface of things:
Swimming in familiar, stagnant waters,
greeting only those we like, who are like us;
the truest discoveries are made around
the borders; on the edge; at those
magnificent boundaries where our souls explode.

I’ll meet you at the border, then, my friends,
out on the edge of our thoughts,
in the dark essence of these lives we lead.
There we may yet burst forth as new light
to one another, and light the way, perhaps,
for other struggling pilgrims as well.
Who knows what truly heavenly discoveries
may come to us there in that sacred borderland
we may have once derided as hell?

jbs
2/3/03 - 2/16/03

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