The Journey

The Journey…

A spark from the eternal flame ignites,
separating from its host
yet remembering from whence it came;
What lessons do I need to learn,
it asks,
What lessons do I have to share,
it wonders,
and, with assistance, it begins to choose
location and circumstance,
privilege and difficulty,
and persons;

The spark awaits the moment when worlds unite,
and then begins growing,
preparing,
anticipating,
and as it progresses near an approaching light,
it is blessed and cursed with the forgetting,
and the learning begins
as the spark begins its return journey home;

Times of ease and struggles occur,
lessons are learned and unlearned,
meaning is often elusive
between periodic windows of truth,
errors are made, forgiveness dispensed,
sentences enforced on the self,
and time passes by;

And, the spark awaits the moment when
the real world appears,
beginning new preparations,
anticipating,
and as it nears an approaching light,
it is blessed with the remembering
and the peacefulness of home
and a new learning begins;

A spark from the eternal flame re-ignites,
separating from its host
yet remembering from whence it came;
What lessons do I still need to learn,
it reevaluates,
What lessons do I need to share,
it reviews,
and, with assistance, it begins to choose,
forgetting as a hazy illusion begins to appear real,
again beginning a return journey home,
improving, learning,
and, each time,
remembering a bit more the purpose of the journey
and the true meaning of home.