The Reward
April 25, 2016
Resist the temptation
to satisfy your desire
with fires that die
and colors that fade
and stones
which will not gleam
as time marches.
Prepare your body
to suffer
and your soul
to lay down in the road
because it may be
death
or it may be
rest
but you don't know what's coming.
And there may be daylight
when you feel it in your bones
or a final dusk
in the moment you arrive
but there is an end.
So prepare the inside
like an empty vessel
to be filled
and prepare the outside
like a door to welcome in
that calling night
or beckoning day
whichever mercy gives
as the reward.
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