Waiting For The Dragon Boat

I've has just enough time to...   not wait for the dragon boat

Still waiting for the dragon boat to come to shore in the Jade Emperor Temple, Surabaya, Indonesia

I waited

For the Dragon Boat to come

And take me away

But I waited too long

Under the motionless cloud

And faded rainbow

The Dragon Boat never come to my shore

For I had waited too long…

And I can do nothing now

But wait some more

For I had invested too much of my youth

For it not to come true…

So I must wait a little longer

And can do nothing but wait

For the Dragon boat

To come to my shore

I  wandered into this old Jade Emperor Chinese temple in my visit to the China town of Surabaya, Indonesia. In the upstairs balcony, I discovered an old faded but beautiful relief wall painting in cheerful blue. In it under was a vast sea and a dragon boat coming to shore under a rainbow, cloud and the palace of heaven. A man was sitting forlornly on a long wooden bench in front of the faded scene. I don’t know but to me it was a very poignant scene of time losing its purpose.

To take me to the Valley of Peach Blossom

A Boat That Never Leave The Shore.

I've had just enough time...    to ponder about safe harborage.

Taken in Kota Kinabalu

 

"For love was offered me…and I shrank from its

disillusionment:

Sorrow knocked at my door, but I was afraid:

Ambition called to me, but I dreaded the chances.

Yet all the while I hungered for meaning in my life.

To put meaning in one’s life may end in madness.

But life without meaning is the torture

Of restless and vague desire—

It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid. "

- "George Grey" Edgar Lee Master.

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A boat that never leave the shore,

Still ends in the bottom.

Yet never sail the wide water,

For which it was intended.