Poem: Beyond Inspired

Beyond Inspired

They will tell you ways to find the inspiration,
will say to seek it here or there,
ask you to look or listen or feel or remember,
suggest a word or image, a sound,
a way to imagine.  That is all fine,
can be a wonder. They will say
how to reach forwards
to find that inspiration.
I want to ask, though,
try not to find it,
try to do without it,
to do it and go forwards
without the pressing need,
the burning in your spirit,
not that it is no good,
but consider what you can do
if you step beyond that place,
if you become one who is capable
of always being ready.
Trust me, it is not a need.
The mind is always full.
Do the work and discover
their is never an absence.
That is the truer secret.
Of course, it is not simple,
and the other ways are fine too.
It is not any better, perhaps.
I am not  in any position
to say it is a better way of working.

It is worth consideration, though,
at the least, it deserves a thought.