The Metaphoric Boat

The Metaphoric Boat

© 2009-2016 Rolland G. Smith

There! In the boat. My destiny;

My future cast afloat.

Dare I swim as child to see

What’s in the auger boat?

I am young and the sea is old

Should I stay in its brine?

My body’s quick, my spirit’s bold,

And knows the path sublime.

Some do not know we Indigo

Are here to change – refine,

The way we stage Divine's tableau

Among our humankind.

That’s all I know without the boat

To tell me what’s in store.

The distance is Poseidon’s moat

And keeps me near the shore.

It’s deep and dark to brave the tide

And see my future clear,

So I will stay and play shore’s side

Despite the knowing near.

Unlike the boat that points her prow

To ocean swells unknown.

Again in life I’ll live the NOW,

A choice that I have sown.

Note: My thanks to extraordinary Canadian photographer and philosopher Claude Charlebois for the inspiration of this poem from his photograph.