The Trackless Path

Is there ever enough love to make up for all we’ve lost?

Yes. But until we die or He appears, we must imagine.

The home that I offer is in my heart,

For I myself live in a tent, a car, 

The back of a moving van,

And I like it that way.

But the world would have me put them up in a hotel,

To take out a mortgage, to put myself in bondage,

So that they can go on living like the world.

And I wonder if that was what Christ was trying to say

When he said that the foxes have holes

And the birds have nests,

But the Son of Man has not a place to lie his head.

It seems that he was warning us 

That if we fully give way 

To the Spirit he possessed,

That it will prompt us to forsake our hopes of home

For the home we find in Him.

Surely.

And that’s a hard pill to swallow.

Poem 3

And when it sets it shrouds my little camp

With velvet black and starry glow.

And I, between two cedars,

Drift off to sleep

In the silence

Of a world apart.

Poem 2 - The Sun O’erhead

And the sun rises over the open valley down below.

It crosses the sky and paints the clouds

In white.

Three poems, three days, one picture…

Poem 1 - Between Two Cedars

My tent is strung between two cedars,

Old and wide. And I, alive to the gift,

Give thanks.

Unless you go back to the source for an interpretation,

And when unseen, seek light through revelation,

You will interpret the text, the person,

The past the present and even

The very thing you worship

Through the lens of your ideology 

And your particular predisposition.

But if you seek the living Truth

It will reveal itself to you,

And when it does, 

You will be shocked to realize

That it is not what it was made out to be.

Feeling like you have enough

Allows you to act today

In such a way

That provides for unseen tomorrows.

The opposite is also true.

Feeling like there's not enough

Will rob tomorrow 

To pay for that 

Which you believe you lack today.

This is a recording of The Rise of Silence, A Book of Poems and True Stories read by the author, J.A. McCormick.

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Jonathan McCormick 

The Trackless Path

When you know that a course of action is right,

When it meets with the approval 

Of your best inner conscience,

Don’t complain. Don’t explain. Just act.