Within

You go on long enough, and far enough

You learn things

Things about how Everything works

At times it's awe inspiring, heady and delicious 

Sometimes you wish you didn't know 

But there's no way you'd go back 

Not ever 

So, you embrace it 

Even when it puts space 

Between you and others 

And turns the acceptable and expected 

Into the laughable and mindless 

Chaos suddenly makes perfect sense 

And all at once

It's WONDERFUL

No more worry about approval 

And the difficult times are just that 

Times that come and go like waves on the shore 

Their only constancy in their ebb and flow

No more need to build stories to survive them 

You don't define yourself by them 

Any more than you'd do with the times 

That slide by like ice cream on your tongue 

It all comes and goes 

And the magick is in how you decide to walk it every day

Pain doesn't define you. Bliss doesn't define you. 

What's in that core within, the place where you KNOW

That's the place it all comes from.   

Not your brain, that's just a processing center. 

Send and receive from your core

In time, you'll get used to the feel of what makes sense for you 

And what doesn't  

Most of what's around us is just noise 

Tune it out, often, and go within