Lost

What do you do when you're lost in the forest?

Stand still.

The trees ahead and branches beside you are not lost.
Wherever you are is called 'here'.
The forest knows where you are
and you must treat it as a powerful stranger.
You must ask permission to know it and be known.

Listen.

The forest breathes.
It whispers "you may leave this place at anytime
and return saying 'here'".
No two trees are the same to Raven.
No two branches are the same to Wren
And if what a tree or branch does is lost on you, you are truly lost.

Stand still.

The forest knows where you are.

Stand still.

You must let the forest find you.

Robert Wagoner

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