Inner Landscape

Inner Landscape

You have to climb the mountain
which is you yourself:
leave behind the habitations,
the civilized arrangements of home and road.


Invade the hidden untamed wilderness
which has been there in silence
from the beginning of time,
closer at hand than perhaps the hand itself,


Waiting patiently, beyond and without time,
for time to run out;
or for the unexpected, unsought onslaught
of that innermost force:

The light which shone on the very first day,
and is shining still
on the mountain-range, yet unexplored,
which is you yourself.




Michael Krohnen
Ojai, California
September 2017