FOR THE JOURNEY

A STILL SOUL

May you have a still soul that
goes murmurless like water
in the deep of rivers;

And perchance you wander
silent amid the din of the world's
grinding barter like one journeying
in strange lands.

You, too, with the still soul,
have your mission, for beneath the dashing,
noisy waves must ever run the silent waters
that give the tide its course.

Max Ehrman