Forging Your Own Path 003

The Land Of Uncertainty

In the last line of his poem ‘Kneeling’ R.S. Thomas writes:

The meaning is in the waiting.

One of the first poems I ever wrote was ‘the land of uncertainty’, which wrestles with the challenge of waiting in uncertain lands, of waiting when you feel utterly lost.

in the land of uncertainty

we must take what is given

what is not there to be found

must be left be…