Themes and Insights
The Traveler
Divine Guidance and Revelation – God’s hand is present throughout, leading the traveler through danger and peace alike, revealing both the fearsome and the wise.
The Duality of Existence – The poem highlights contrasts: fear and understanding, bondage and liberty, war and peace, showing the traveler’s growth through experience.
Wisdom as a Gift – True understanding is not self-made but granted by God, through intimate experiences, lessons, and encounters with both men and the divine.
The Seeker’s Destiny – The traveler is set apart, a stranger in a strange land, chosen to witness and comprehend, revealing that those who seek will be guided by God.
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The Traveler
I have stood with Dragons
And felt the heat of their wrath
Consume the enemy at the gates
I have walked with Bears
Who rise up and strike
All who oppose their dwelling
I have eaten with Lions
Who feast like no other
Tearing away with great pride
The wolf is my brother
His call marks the land
That he makes home in my mountains
The great Tigers of the east
Whose sabre cannot be questioned
Together we run unopposed
I have shared waters with Sharks
And ravaged alongside them
They who cannot be reasoned with
I have sat with the great Apes
Surveying all before us
And pounded chest in unified song
Lo, all these words are for but a few
That none may understand
Who are not living in time
Indeed God has revealed the earth to me
And all who are fearsome
Made peace within my dwellings
Truly the Master has taught me
And walked me in harrowing places
That I may find fearless understanding
For they who call me friend
Are friend to no others
Save he who comprehends will
Yet of that which I call blessings
Ended not in the dreadful places
Of the wild flesh of the earth
For in balance and truth
So too did God set before me peace
And the learned men of understanding
God, in mercy, brought forth wisdom
And placed her lessons of intimacy
In my very bed and tender experiences
I was shown beauty beyond reason
To where blind eye suddenly awoke
Beholding that which cannot be denied
In my very hands
Did God place the hearts of others
That I may humbly witness His power
Heavenly things were presented to me
That have flowed through my spirit
To that very place between life and death
For I have fallen and risen again
And have withstood the sunrise and sunset
All that God may be known
And to my right He did place the righteous
And to my left He did place the monsters
That all would be accepting of my brotherhood
Who can rebuke what God has done
Or plot against the passage of time
Except the foolish who fool themselves?
For I have known chains and bondage
And I have known liberty and great power
Nothing of God can be taken away
I have known the little who wish to be great
And the great who wish to be little
Even more, those who are what they are
All of these are my brothers
And of them is a masters prowess
Angels of earth and of spirit
And of all these humbling matters
Not one was of my own making
For they can only be gifts from God
For God blesses the seeker
The stranger in a strange land
And to the Traveler, does God reveal
Ryan o0o
The Traveler
I have stood with Dragons
And felt the heat of their wrath
Consume the enemy at the gates
I have walked with Bears
Who rise up and strike
All who oppose their dwelling
I have eaten with Lions
Who feast like no other
Tearing away with great pride
The wolf is my brother
His call marks the land
That he makes home in my mountains
The great Tigers of the east
Whose sabre cannot be questioned
Together we run unopposed
I have shared waters with Sharks
And ravaged alongside them
They who cannot be reasoned with
I have sat with the great Apes
Surveying all before us
And pounded chest in unified song
Lo, all these words are for but a few
That none may understand
Who are not living in time
Indeed God has revealed the earth to me
And all who are fearsome
Made peace within my dwellings
Truly the Master has taught me
And walked me in harrowing places
That I may find fearless understanding
For they who call me friend
Are friend to no others
Save he who comprehends will
Yet of that which I call blessings
Ended not in the dreadful places
Of the wild flesh of the earth
For in balance and truth
So too did God set before me peace
And the learned men of understanding
God, in mercy, brought forth wisdom
And placed her lessons of intimacy
In my very bed and tender experiences
I was shown beauty beyond reason
To where blind eye suddenly awoke
Beholding that which cannot be denied
In my very hands
Did God place the hearts of others
That I may humbly witness His power
Heavenly things were presented to me
That have flowed through my spirit
To that very place between life and death
For I have fallen and risen again
And have withstood the sunrise and sunset
All that God may be known
And to my right He did place the righteous
And to my left He did place the monsters
That all would be accepting of my brotherhood
Who can rebuke what God has done
Or plot against the passage of time
Except the foolish who fool themselves?
For I have known chains and bondage
And I have known liberty and great power
Nothing of God can be taken away
I have known the little who wish to be great
And the great who wish to be little
Even more, those who are what they are
All of these are my brothers
And of them is a masters prowess
Angels of earth and of spirit
And of all these humbling matters
Not one was of my own making
For they can only be gifts from God
For God blesses the seeker
The stranger in a strange land
And to the Traveler, does God reveal
Ryan o0o
Themes and Insights
The Traveler
Divine Guidance and Revelation – God’s hand is present throughout, leading the traveler through danger and peace alike, revealing both the fearsome and the wise.
The Duality of Existence – The poem highlights contrasts: fear and understanding, bondage and liberty, war and peace, showing the traveler’s growth through experience.
Wisdom as a Gift – True understanding is not self-made but granted by God, through intimate experiences, lessons, and encounters with both men and the divine.
The Seeker’s Destiny – The traveler is set apart, a stranger in a strange land, chosen to witness and comprehend, revealing that those who seek will be guided by God.
The Traveler
I have stood with Dragons
And felt the heat of their wrath
Consume the enemy at the gates
I have walked with Bears
Who rise up and strike
All who oppose their dwelling
I have eaten with Lions
Who feast like no other
Tearing away with great pride
The wolf is my brother
His call marks the land
That he makes home in my mountains
The great Tigers of the east
Whose sabre cannot be questioned
Together we run unopposed
I have shared waters with Sharks
And ravaged alongside them
They who cannot be reasoned with
I have sat with the great Apes
Surveying all before us
And pounded chest in unified song
Lo, all these words are for but a few
That none may understand
Who are not living in time
Indeed God has revealed the earth to me
And all who are fearsome
Made peace within my dwellings
Truly the Master has taught me
And walked me in harrowing places
That I may find fearless understanding
For they who call me friend
Are friend to no others
Save he who comprehends will
Yet of that which I call blessings
Ended not in the dreadful places
Of the wild flesh of the earth
For in balance and truth
So too did God set before me peace
And the learned men of understanding
God, in mercy, brought forth wisdom
And placed her lessons of intimacy
In my very bed and tender experiences
I was shown beauty beyond reason
To where blind eye suddenly awoke
Beholding that which cannot be denied
In my very hands
Did God place the hearts of others
That I may humbly witness His power
Heavenly things were presented to me
That have flowed through my spirit
To that very place between life and death
For I have fallen and risen again
And have withstood the sunrise and sunset
All that God may be known
And to my right He did place the righteous
And to my left He did place the monsters
That all would be accepting of my brotherhood
Who can rebuke what God has done
Or plot against the passage of time
Except the foolish who fool themselves?
For I have known chains and bondage
And I have known liberty and great power
Nothing of God can be taken away
I have known the little who wish to be great
And the great who wish to be little
Even more, those who are what they are
All of these are my brothers
And of them is a masters prowess
Angels of earth and of spirit
And of all these humbling matters
Not one was of my own making
For they can only be gifts from God
For God blesses the seeker
The stranger in a strange land
And to the Traveler, does God reveal
Ryan o0o
Themes and Insights
The Traveler
Divine Guidance and Revelation – God’s hand is present throughout, leading the traveler through danger and peace alike, revealing both the fearsome and the wise.
The Duality of Existence – The poem highlights contrasts: fear and understanding, bondage and liberty, war and peace, showing the traveler’s growth through experience.
Wisdom as a Gift – True understanding is not self-made but granted by God, through intimate experiences, lessons, and encounters with both men and the divine.
The Seeker’s Destiny – The traveler is set apart, a stranger in a strange land, chosen to witness and comprehend, revealing that those who seek will be guided by God.
