What We Forget
There are times like this
times like this when we see the way
we’ve been seeing has been an illusion
a fantasy
a world we’ve been trying to make
that was never really there at all.
We suffer and don’t know why
We look for meaning in other’s dreams
We’ve been chasing carrots
Thinking it was a race to the top
But maybe this feeling
this soul restlessness
is just the real world calling
A world that has been with us for
A long long long time
We forget until someone sits in front of us one day
And wakes us through their refusal
to go away
Reminds us
The real work is remembering
Not in doing more or learning
more. It’s in remembering.
We’ve been here before
Others have been here before
We were taught what to do
Remember the map the way the love
the thing we must do and who we are
And that person needs us
Not a lesson
Close our eyes breath deep
We can remember
It wasn’t always this way
You weren’t always this way
