Ink splatters on a Partner

INK SPLATTERS ON A PARTNER

Things are so exciting
when others are doing them.
Our interests seem trivial.
Alone we lack self-reliance,
always clinging
to another for fulfillment.
We live hoping, expecting,
mostly waiting
for another to develop our character.
The pages remain blank.
Slowly awakening from this block
we begin an inward journey.
Finding joy and importance
in our own work and interests.
Gradually stepping out of old patterns -
leaving the blank pages.
There is pleasure in one's own being
a personality emerging.
The ink begins to flow.

1992

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