Some time ago, I came across a beautiful poem that stole my heart.

It is called ‘The Calf Path’.

‘The Calf Path’ talks about a calf that gets lost in the woods. Others follow in the footsteps of the calf, and after generations a city is born by those that trod in the calf’s footsteps. A city forgetting the origin of the story, a story really without any meaning, filled with silliness.

Many people do ’silly’ things just because it’s the way it’s always been done, without getting a proper answer as to why it needs to be done.

A lot of us lose precious time from the limited lifespan we have on earth, walking the life others want us to walk, doing what we should do, living the life others want us to live.

We can get pressure from family and friends and colleagues, people we’ve just met, and people we’ve never met, urging us to take the so called easy way, to follow the prevailing wisdom. It can be a challenge not to simply accept the status quo and do what’s expected of you. People will ‘should’ all over you if you allow them. But, you have a choice. When you truly believe, in yourself, and in your dream, you can take control and make your vision a reality. You can Create Your Reality Experience Self.

The Calf Path

One day, through the primeval wood,
A calf walked home, as good calves should;
But made a trail all bent askew,
A crooked trail as all calves do.

Since then two hundred years have fled,
And, I infer, the calf is dead.
But still he left behind his trail,
And thereby hangs my moral tale.

The trail was taken up next day
By a lone dog that passed that way;
And then a wise bell-wether sheep
Pursued the trail o’er vale and steep,
And drew the flock behind him too,
As good bell-wethers always do.

And from that day, o’er hill and glade,
Through those old woods a path was made;
And many men wound in and out,
And dodged, and turned, and bent about
And uttered words of righteous wrath
Because ’twas such a crooked path.
But still they followed — do not laugh
The first migrations of that calf,
And through this winding wood-way stalked,
Because he wobbled whhen he walked.

This forest path became a lane,
That bent, and turned, and turned again;
This crooked lane became a road,
Where many a poor horse with his load
Toiled on beneath the burning sun,
And travelled some three miles in one.
And thus a century and a half
They trod the footsteps of that calf.

The years passed on in swiftness fleet,
The road became a village street;
And this, before men were aware,
A city’s crowded thoroughfare;
And soon the central street was this
Of a renowned metropolis;
And men two centuries and a half
Trod in the footsteps of that calf.

Each day a hundred thousand rout
Followed the zigzag calf about;
And o’er his crooked journey went
The traffic of a continent.
A hundred thousand men were led
By one calf near three centuries dead.
They followed still his crooked way,
And lost one hundred years a day;
For thus such reverence is lent
To well-established precedent.

A moral lesson this might teach
Were I ordained and called to preach;
For men are prone to go it blind
Along the calf-paths of the mind
And work away from sun to sun
To do what other men have done.
They follow in the beaten track
And out and in, and forth and back,
And still their devious course pursue,
To keep the path that others do.

But how the wise old wood-gods laugh,
Who saw the first primeval calf!
Ah! many things this tale might teach –
But I am not ordained to preach.

Sam Walter Foss (1858 - 1911)

There are those who still feel that original spark of wanting to live the life of their own true nature, to go after their own desires and become the best they can be. People that feel the juice of being alive, that feel passion, that want so much and dare to dream it is possible.

Cyres Café is a home from home to stimulate your true being, opening yourself up to who you really are, and helping you to get away from The Calf Path. To experience your own true path.

Cyres Café appreciates uniqueness and your power to be who you deep down want to be, encouraging you to inspire yourself to love yourself more and take your desires seriously.

Getting off the trodden path can be scary at first, lonely in part, and sometimes difficult when confronted with outside pressure to conform. Cyres Café will help to get the dream, and the passion that resides deep inside of you, to manifest, and can help you to find the tools that will get you going.

The secret to change is Focus. Focus is conscious choice of the thoughts and feelings that you have. ‘The Secret’ is all about this. It is beautiful because it reminds us of our potential. It digs up those beautiful dreams of ours and makes our spirit want to fly again.

We at Cyres Cafe intend to inspire you to fly higher, and it is our desire to help you to reclaim the radiant beauty that you were when being a child, full of dreams and wonder …

Dream again … we will fly next to you …