Outside, In

The yarrow stalks of the I Ching
help with decision making .
The Tarot reader gives answers
to what we seek.
The astrologer talks of possibilities.
The psychic tells what they see.
The therapist offers advice.

Circling around and behind
the shadow’s cry, 
showing me the path inside.

Throwing the sticks —
The psychic predicts —
Tarot reader sees the trickster,

Astrologer says the stars
aligned when you came into being. 

Your work is here now —
waiting to be seen,
says the therapist.  

Within the wounds and shadows of time, 
Looking outside and in, 
around and ahead,
coming back again 

Now I know
I can simply
let life be.

As if for the very first time —
it is good, very, very good
from the outside, in 

© Todd Emerson Greenberg 03/14/24