Journey’s End

What goes on at the end of an adventure?
Life continues and the mundane, consumes,
That joyous excitement of discovery fades,
Until it is nothing more than a distant memory,
Responsibility weighs heavily upon us,
Until it is all we know,
But in the silence of night,
Or in the trance of musical ecstasy,
Those distant memories come back,
And we live again in another world.

Yongjing

^The Article of Nature^