Poetry
Future lies in Uncertainty
A Piece By: Uncle K
We keep on asking ourselves: “Why do we spend so much time preparing for tomorrow when tomorrow is never promised?”
It comes towards us like dawn beneath the horizon, always approaching, never entirely revealed.And in that mystery there’s a kind of mercy.
We’re spared the burden of knowing everything
before we have learned how to receive it.
But the future has never been promising to us in the form we imagine it.
The mind reaches forward, asking,
“What will become of us?”
Every moment passes
and therefore every moment is sacred.
A river does not need to know the ocean
before it begins its descent.
A seed does not demand to see the tree
before it enters the darkness of the earth.
So develop certainty within……
By: Uncle K
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