‘Letting go of what I have loved’ (André Leijssen, pilgrim 790)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Walk beyond the horizon, writes André Leijssen, pilgrim 790. He walked the Walk of Wisdom last summer. A year earlier, he wrote the poem below. He now sent it for publication.

 

pilgrim

Like a pilgrim on lonely paths

I follow my shadow

Walk beyond the horizon 

 

Let me go my own way

Wandering in a forgotten landscape

Lying in the green grass

 

Life is letting go

What I have loved dearly

Rediscovering what was lost

 

Love is the only path of life

Not the end point is my goal

but the way to get there

 

Love is not demanding, it gives itself

Like the shining sun

gives her warmth in a pleasant way

 

That’s how my life overflows

paths of pilgrims, beyond

houses of hospitality and

welcome, by places in abandoned

and inhospitable regions

 

There are encounters of

Recognition and friendship

with people of good company

from ‘hello’ and a warm ‘goodbye’

 

© André Leijssen, April 2015

 Pilgrim ‘Walk of Wisdom’ in August 2016; No. 790