The Unknown Way

To take the way that is not known,
After all of the known ways have been taken

(Having recognized how utterly inadequate they all are),
And to confront the emptiness that is then before one;

To stand, staring the future blankly, seeing nothing:
The emptiness that then lies before one,

That is one's own true way.


by Robert Hampton Burt
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