Tavi Ponder

The Question

I have searched for years, though there is one thing I can’t find.

A haunting shadow of my past, there is no peace of mind.

I’m not the first and not the last to dread this honest query,

So if you dare, then close your eyes to let your mind see clearly.

All passions aside, and thoughts unkempt for just a little while,

For better to be alone in soul, than dead with the heart of a child.

As fire consumes, I also fear what answer I will find

When doubt has overtaken and the tears have drowned my eyes.

This necessary evil that no one has yet escaped;

It shows the way to manhood, but also to the grave.

Life is here for just a time; it seems betray our trust.

It breathes its fullness, trials and gold but also seems to kill us.

So if you can, then take the step that others have before,

Be truthful to your hardened heart, it is your open door.

The question that we ask is this, this very one destroys us:

Whether ‘tis better to live full of pain and reward, or to live in a fear that protects us.

Men wiser than I have walked before and many more will come,

But I have gained a grain of truth that beats on like a drum.

It is said that the brave man, he doesn’t live forever; he marches to his fall;

But pity the cautious and fearful man; he does not live at all.

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