Course

Course

We like quick fix

Fast

Drive thru’

Microwave

Instant

Speedy

Abbrv.

We want solutions

Answers

Action

Change

Difference

But yet can’t embrace process

Method

Time

Patience

We dig for secrets

Shortcut

Hidden

Loophole

Slam head against dead end.

Before you, us, all

Is a path

Road

Pilgrimage

Journey

It will finish when it is supposed to

The long adoption

The long job wait

The long period of singleness

The long feeling of grief

The long time ‘til moving

The long volunteer work experience

The long disease

The long uncertainty

“I will run the course of your commandments

You shall enlarge my heart.”

As I endure this

My heart grows

Learns

Responds

Adapts

Pursues

More of that which I am in need of

I am changed.

Course end reveals

Cocoon shell

Empty

No longer harbouring the old self

But new flying free

New large heart

Full with lesson learnt

And I learn to like it slow.

If I go too fast

Who knows what I might miss.