Seek Peace

When hard decisions keep you up at night
and daybreak brings a stark clarity.

When living your values requires making painful choices.
When being your own witness
without further explanation
must be enough.

It is then that you go somewhere so quiet
you can hear a train far off in the distance,
so many prayer flags and pine boughs
rustling in the winter wind.

Here you walk slowly, timing footsteps to heartbeats,
feeling the goodness that lives in you
and trusting your knowing even when it hurts.

You don’t believe in gurus.
Let only the trees stand sentry as you seek peace.