Growth - poem

I have a photo that I look at in my workplace,
to remind me where I am going.
It is no one I know.
Her expression says that there is nothing
in the past for me.
Knowledge, choices, relationships...
have no application to Now.
Now is not about freedom, because there is nothing
to be free from, or to.
Now is not about wisdom, or static decisions.

I am not trying to explain this to you. I can't.

Growth is the path which can never be seen

in advance, not even in theory.
It is only practice. There is no test.

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(The photo is of Annie Clark)