Live Early

Go up! out of the wheelruts of your mind.
Live early. Stop being theoretical.

Be hungry for profound religion,
Be crafty with the earth, creative in arts
To keep the blood stirred for eternity,
Against the littleness & sham.

Let the wind lift you.
Watch the free birds
Blossom like wildflowers and give out honey.
Set down love like sorrow at beauty
And she will come back to you.

Serve nothing but the Most High.
Be your heart, yielded up...
Even being lost in life is
Nothing the matter...

Weep, laugh, mourn, let go...

Take risks: each day comes up
With the sound of crumpling eggs and
Motortyres mouth the gaping potholes at speed;
Every watched tick dulls the silver thread
So why not cast out now?

Follow the Divine Compulsion.
Be rigorous.

Give yourself to take up life
In wonder, in fun and fascination.

Let your heart off its leash
So you can exhaust yourself,
Be hungry to be fed deep in.

Take heart!
Feel the pulse
Of your renewed self...and give that drumbeat
To life... then you will know
Abundantly, live abundantly...

And so, finally, live!
By living finally.


© Wayne David Knoll 1994,
Kyneton, Victoria