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.