Beyond the Great Beyond

I do not wish to return  to this loud and restless world.

When my time comes, I will not turn back toward unfinished lessons
or circles that keep repeating themselves.

I will walk beyond the great beyond,
past the questions,
past the debts,
past the burdens I was never meant to carry forever.

I release the karmic classrooms
that no longer nourish my spirit.
I release the belief
that suffering is the price of wisdom.

Instead, I choose peace.

I choose the quiet presence of God.
I choose the everlasting home
prepared long before I arrived here.

And I shall dwell
in the house of the Lord forever

not searching,
not striving,
not returning,

but finally resting
in a love that asks nothing more of me
than to come home.