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poem it out ...



My latest inspirational blog, Liz Lamoreux has a post today entitled:  poem it out ... which is a great transition to my favorite poem.  I found it many years ago and made tons of cardboard bookmarks with words to share with others.

It's again appropriate for the change happening in my life right now.  Changes I've asked for, accepted and am in the middle of making.  Change that involves risk, setting sail and finding comfort in a new shore.

Spoon River Anthology  by Edgar Lee Masters
George Gray
I HAVE studied many times
The marble which was chiseled for me--
A boat with a furled sail at rest in a harbor.
In truth it pictures not my destination
But my life.
For love was offered me and I shrank from its disillusionment;
Sorrow knocked at my door, but I was afraid;
Ambition called to me, but I dreaded the chances.
Yet all the while I hungered for meaning in my life.
And now I know that we must lift the sail
And catch the winds of destiny
Wherever they drive the boat.
To put meaning in one's life may end in madness,
But life without meaning is the torture
Of restlessness and vague desire--
It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid.

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