New Job

I started a new job today,
and after five hours had completed
everything they had planned --
guess I work a bit fater than the
'other guy', and don't havea cell phone, and ...

anyway, I had time to write this,

BEYOND

“A man’s reach should exceed his grasp,”
are fine words to inspire and caress
the shift of dreams to action and back;
a worthy dance of living beyond.

Yet we must also heed the caution,
“That man can only learn, in truth,
that for which life has prepared him.”
How then do we bridge this wisdom gap?

Are only those with vast experience
to be allowed to engender dreams,
or are dreams a way of preparing,
and unconsciously birthing action?

We quickly transfer facts to knowledge
by way of trust – believing the source
as witness for self-experience
in all concepts from soup to nuts;

and I could write a book (and did),
on the sure folly of believing
those whose actions belay their words,
but this is beating a busted drum.

So, I would suggest, and not in jest,
that dreaming can be just as sure,
and possibly more based on truth,
that what the actor said or thought.

Dreams do not come from naught, you know;
but from fain memories incomplete,
and whispers of instinct ancient draw
on Currents and Tribe and Covenant.

Why do we not then value these more,
coming from self and eternity,
that opinioned guesses and nightmares
of others with a higher pretension?

A quest based on groundless believing
is as feckless as wind strewn sand;
while a dream might be anchored sure
on the cold anvil of creation.