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A Journey's End

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A Journey's End

A new poem from J.Y. Tao, inspired by the Distant Reaches

J.Y. Tao
Feb 22
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A Journey's End

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The "Secrets of Amal" banner against the backdrop of a rolling mountainscape
Art by Alana Fletcher.
When will your journey end?
When will you return home again?
Your mother and father doth call
You’ve been gone winter, spring, and fall —

Do you know where you are heading to?
Will anywhere new do?
Or is this just another place to distract you?

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You’ve traveled through the frosty northern reaches
Down to the sunny southern beaches
Visiting oracles, soothsayers, even a necromancer
Hoping to find your answer

And still you didn’t discover what you’re looking for
You got stories, memories, and cultural lore
Yet that’s not enough; you want more…

You say you are not lost
That the experience is worth the cost
That you’re on a soul-searching journey
To have that life-changing epiphany,

But what you really seek to find
Is a different state of mind
(Honestly, it’d be cheaper with a bottle of firewine.)

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