Boating - Édouard Manet

 

Here I stand 

In a place where you aren't 

I step into the boat and sail with a human who isn't you 

You stay on the shore 

How will it be? 

It's again a place of wavering confusion

For I have clarity

I'm not certain how much clarity the human I journey with has 

This is my reality

I'll experience it with Openness

In the absence of you - I take Patience with me 

I take Kindness too 

I have invited Wisdom with us as well 

The four of them are sure to be just enough 

Through storm or thunder 

Somewhere we'll land 

With these by my side 

I am sure 

We won't be wrecked 

We'll be on the other side of the tide 

Somewhere new 

And while I write this - I hear Patience gently calling with kind eyes