What distance teaches you

to choose when to stay,
one must learn how to bend the knees
and appease the nyash.

to choose when to leave,
one must become a tree with leaves
while aiming the sun.

what both can teach us
is a traveler must leave home,
to answer his name.

the lesson learnt there
is for the feet to teach the mind
how to walk with pain.

Ruddapoet