You’ll Know
You’ll know you’ve finally arrived when
you get to the point where you can leave
life’s bustling marketplace, empty-handed
Smiling easily at merchants as they hawk their wares
of fruit and flesh, pausing here and there to admire
a fine raiment or strain of song, but not for overlong
You’ll know you’ve cleared a hurdle and are home free
when you emerge at the end of that entrancing fair
unperturbed, without bulging pockets or hungry eyes
With absolutely nothing to show for the day’s visit
but a small inner triumph that quietly manifests itself
in steadying stillness and a companionable aloneness.
— © Yahia Lababidi,
Author of Where Epics Fail : unbound.com/books/where-epics-fail
(Art by Agostino Arrivabene)
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