The Task

the task now:
to accept the burden
as the way

to become lighter
to become like a feather

to bless the labor given,
it is the door

to welcome the darkness
in which one can finally see

to seek only to learn
and teach thereby

to trim the warrior's fire
to glow of love
so that to this
all beings, flowering,
may turn.

And so the skills he hones
are quiet and within.

Knowing now the world is golden light,
he sits in a chair by the window,
and lets it flow into his lap.

                                     
                                   
Les Reed poems