YOUR REAL ADVENTURE

Dead Horse Point, Utah, June 2019. Copyright © Michael D. Warden. All Rights Reserved.

YOUR REAL ADVENTURE

to lose the madness

you must let go

of all the things

you tell yourself

you ought to be

you must die

to all artifice

forsake

every false display

these conversations

you’ve been having

are not yours

you were made

for other words

your whole body

weeps with it

this unbearable absence

this distant ache

this holy summoning

to your real adventure

your mistake

has been to believe

you have no choice

just go

follow the scent

of your secret desire

come by way

of the wild paths

where the free air

still burns

go far

into that forbidding

landscape

then ask: Who are you?

and be that.