Apprentice

Apprentice


She instructs me in things

I do not immediately understand.

She tells me to stand alone,

in a room,

in the dark,

with my eyes open.


I complain that there is nothing to see.


"That is not the point," she tells me.


"The point is to practice,


standing alone,


in the dark,


with your eyes open."


Oriethyia 1978