strength flows from
this ancient culture
on the surface a
a slick western front.
below is a deep longing
to connect with a history
some have abandoned
the way the ancients
but most accept the way
that once was sacred
it cannot be stricken
from the heart
ancient wisdom still appeals
to the young
wanting to be western
without accepting this eastern
it is like a snake
wishing for legs.
if we don’t perceive
what we have
we can never
come home.
(the photo in this post is of me lounging on my own private deck of the river boat I was traveling down the Yangtze River on. This was during the SAR's epidemic and very few were in china, but I needed to see the Three Gorges before they were flooded, which happened a month after the picture was taken.)
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