Relent

After a lifetime
Of ceaseless seeking
When you finally drop
Every tired and feeble
Attempt to comprehend
The incomprehensible
And relent instead
To the wonder
And the terror
Of this moment
You will find yourself
At the start of a journey
To the meeting place
That moving edge
Between outside and inside
Where you consent
Without consenting
To being undone.

You are felled
To your knees
And every question
However insistent
Loosens its hold
Even as it carves
Deep within
As you come to see
That you don’t
Get to choose
And you are
Astonished to find
That this is where
You were always going.