Breaking Surface

Let no one keep you from your journey,no rabbi or priest, no motherwho wants you to dig for treasuresshe misplaced, no fatherwho won't let one life be enough,no lover who measures their worthby what you might give up,no voice that tells you in the nightit can't be done.

Let nothing dissuade youfrom seeing what you seeor feeling the winds that make youwant to dance aloneor go where no onehas yet to go.

You are the only explorer.Your heart, the unreadable compass.Your soul, the shore of a promisetoo great to be ignored.

by Mark Nepo