Being On the Path ~ Some Thoughts and Poems

Here are some poems about Being on the Path. Please feel free to add your own poems below!

Cassandra Warner-Young*

The Path

sleeping dreaming sleeping knowing sleeping feeling happy safe sleeping feeling oneness

sleeping dreaming knowing oneness dreaming sleeping loving sleeping dreaming oneness

pushed                      out of the darkness the light glaring flashing too bright too loud noise

noise sleeping                  dreaming drinking seeing hearing tasting feeling eating sleeping

feeling                     learning to walk walking slowly this is the beginning learning crawling

sleeping                   crawling sitting learning hearing sounding haha mommymommydaddy

daddy                     learning eating growing playing feeling playing feeling loving me me me

walking                     watching grasping crawling cuddling playing walking walking walking

running now                            walking walking  learning playing sleeping eating loving food

walking talking                         playing playing playing learning learning walking talking

talking swimming                                     playing walking walking  walking walking walking

walking biking                        learning learning fighting talking reading loving losing

playing writing wanting                     learning studying playing watching running writing

acting loving eating                   learning sleeping working waking not enough walking

working working                   loving school hating school learning writing reading creating

counting studying                      working forgetting missing musing waking watching

loving losing   rock rock rock    stumbling falling feeling sorry forgetting not knowing

studying wondering                   worrying waking wanting climbing marching making

making faking faking                    not knowing not loving not dreaming not creating

studying more bored bored bored bored more slipping not knowing worrying more faster

applying  moving writing   working   working working studying exams exams faster faster

moving not breathing not                     knowing not searching not playing not dreaming

not loving just wanting more  work   not making but buying buying buying buying more

beating bossing becoming important                           becoming impotent becoming bored

not walking driving drinking talking working working not dreaming not making getting

forgetting breaking breaking breaking                       forgetting getting old driving flying

flying racing not breathing not knowing not                  loving not playing just working

working and racing and flying and hording and bossing                  sitting unhappy bored

working racing  breaking collapsing not playing                  not making not loving not

eating not breathing not knowing not thinking

not feeling not breathing

not breathing

just bored

dying

dead

dead

dead

dead

 

© On-the-Path, 2011

*A Note from Onthepath:

Cassandra was a good friend of one of the Onthepath members. Unfortunately, she started suffering from severe depressions after her little daughter died at the age of 5 days. Her depression was diagnosed and treated with conventional Western medicine – and medication. The treatment was unsuccessful: Cassandra committed suicide exactly one year after she had given birth to her daughter. Her poem was written shortly before her death and found in a file with letters and other writings that she had left and dedicated to one of our members. It was partly because of Cassandra’s depression and suicide that Onthepath was founded: we hope to help people find the paths that lead to happiness instead of despair.

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Gudrun Dreher, from: Colorful Moments