The Wilderness…
There are times when doubt assails, merciless and predatory. What is wrong with us? How have we let it come to this? Everyone else is so competent — look at how they navigate life’s trials with ease and assurance. Yet here we are, lost in the Wilderness. The secret endeavor that occupies us — it is the bravest and most cowardly thing we have ever done. The duality seems impossible, yet the truth pierces.
Briers shake their thorns
And bedevil us in spades —
A forest unhinged
A little streak of blood is just the beginning.