You do not have to be a sherpa.
You do not have
to carry someone else’s
backbreaking load.
You need only
fully do your part
and allow them
to fully do theirs.
Though we give each other a hand up
on steep terrain,
our individual journeys include legs of
solitude and silence.
Legs during which,
if we allow it,
we hear the whisperings
of ancient wisdom.
It is through these cycles of togetherness and solitude,
of giving and receiving,
that we will emerge, fully formed and able bodied,
at the end of our sacred journeys.