“I choose the path that has chosen me”

Lidy van Lie Peters walked the Walk of Walk of Wisdom and submitted this poem as a suggestion for the second edition of Seasons of Life, a contemporary book of hours and pilgrims (link).

“Many away

and knows life,

But of all those roads, there is one that I have to go.

That one is for me, that one only.

And whether I like it or not, that’s the way I have to go.

So the choice is not the way, because it chose me.

The choice is the way to go that way.

With reluctance to see the potholes and the stones,

with resistance, because the sun makes a road that goes through ravines,

almost impossible to reach.

Or with the will to be more lenient at the end of that road,

and wiser, than at the beginning.

That path chose me, I choose him!”

 

to Dag Hammarskjöld

 

Photo: driveway Jachtslot Mookerhei, silent walk Walk of Wisdom