Only What We Know
by Tim Kavi
there is only
what we know
what we try to know
and what
we strive to know
in the end
it may be only
what we want
to know
but acceptance
of what one is
where one is
and how to move forward
in circling ramparts
we hide and do battle
with ghosts and regrets
yet one never forgets
the lessons of the past
while trying to escape them
where only such tortured souls
can finally sing
of resistance
the path of the mystic I reckon
longed for meaning
that leads to meeting
that which was unknown
and is totally
responding to freedom's beckon
made new
I am the poet undone
and finding himself again
breathing of my existence
I vow not to run
but to climb the mountain
of radical acceptance
I am finally made whole again
singing songs to you
and loving you again.
