The horse race is over.
The 10,000 lifetimes of
pounding hooves,
bunched muscles and
billowing breath
with blinders focusing all on
fame, possessions and status,
is over.
The race is over.
Blinders removed.
Suddenly a whole field opens.
Our world is widened immeasurably.
Yet for what?
Blinders off,
a whole world is transparent
with choices as open
as the entire field, the sky.
Do you continue to run all out
circling the open field?
It’s the known action.
Without blinders
we race in different directions.
Freedom or lostness?
What is the destination?
Or do you race
to join the herd?
Following the leading mare,
flowing to and fro,
defined by the herd.
Or do you kick out,
blaming others
for the sudden
“loss” of destination?
OR do you drop your
hard headed history
of knowing with your mind,
into knowing with you heart?
Allowing your heart steering
to move you to the center of the field,
or to a small group,
or alone under the shade tree
by trickling water.
Allowing you to do what heals you.
To pull in the clover scented fresh air,
the sparking sun, the joy in life.
the joy in having a physical life,
of hooves planted on the earth,
in love and joy and gratitude.
Allowing your heart steering
to guide your mission,
to define the new “race”.
Lizette Estelle Stiehr
December 12/0/09
Inspired by Selacia’s article “Transparency”,
Sedona Journal, Dec, 09, Page 46