Take the risk

Take the risk

You have walked so far
why turn back now?

You have climbed so many hills
what is one more?

You spent years
learning to bear the heat
and now you want to run away from the fire?

You flew all the way here
preparing to jump
and now you are afraid the parachute won’t open?

You spent years
tearing down fences
and now you want to build a wall?

You spent years lifting weights
and now you can’t lift
the boulder on your chest?

You spent years
learning to open
and you want to shrivel up now?

Go ahead
take the risk
and love.

Comments

Guri Mehta said…
Absolutely beautiful Ash!

Thanks for sharing it.

Guri
Chôshin said…
This is so right about being on the path - one minute we want to go left, then realize we need to go right. Well done Ashvin - I love it!
Manshin, you have no idea who I am, but I think I first came upon a book of yours on a shelf at the girls' ashram house at MS, back in 2007. I copied some of your poems into my diary because they were so beautiful. And then when I returned from India, I was helping my friend Sukh Chugh move out of his place and inside a box was your another copy of the book i had spent three months thumbing through. and now i've found this. it looks like you haven't written in this blog for a while so i don't know if you'll get this message, but i just want to say that i am a fan

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