For dVerse Poetics — Pilgrimage
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Today I have the prompt about pilgrimage on dVerse where we try to think about everything else a pilgrimage except the reason to reach a sacred object in the end.
Poetics: Pilgrimage, revisiting your journey
The Road Between Two Skies
For dVerse Poetics — Pilgrimage
I did not leave to find a promised land,
nor seek a shrine beneath a foreign sun.
I carried northern winters in my hands,
and dreams of journeys not yet begun.
The mountains watched me turn away,
their ancient silence folded in my heart.
I knew the roads that led me through their valleys,
but not the woman who would walk beyond them.
Across the sea, the seasons changed their names.
The snow became a memory of white,
the forests gave their place to barren hills,
and unfamiliar stars appeared at night.
I learned that home was not a destination,
nor something waiting at the journey’s end.
It lived within the courage of departure,
the strangers who became familiar friends.
Some roads were paved with unexpected sorrow,
some climbed through darkness without any light.
Yet every morning offered me another
small beginning beneath an open sky.
And sometimes, when the world grows far too loud,
I walk the dusty paths beyond my door,
where mountains rise like old and patient guardians,
and silence teaches me to breathe once more.
I have no sacred shrine to reach tomorrow,
no final destination I must find.
The pilgrim and the pilgrimage are one—
each step revealing what I left behind.
For somewhere between northern snow
and southern stars, I came to understand:
I did not travel all this way
to find a place where I belonged.
I travelled to discover
that I could carry home
within myself.
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