Destination unknown

Fireflies dance along the pathway like fluttering beacons

The path illuminated with gentle light

Healing each step as if sending a dart to my heart

This one hope, that one balm

Flickering amongst themselves a conversation in flight

My destination uncertain, unknown

I find I don’t care trusting my fate to an ethereal presence

Whose hand guides my shoulder

As I take on the falling rocks and howling winds

Led by no solid man

On a pathway trodden before me though the steps long gone

Worn almost smooth the rocks I now walk barefoot

My feet and soul as one

Rest awhile and gather scattered thoughts

Fireflies around me protectively dancing

I nod to carry on destination still unknown

But certainty that all will be well dwelling deep inside

The path must be trodden not from a duty

But for my own peace

My heart bleeding in harmony with the splintered paint on the door

Which lies ahead with walls unseen

Mouth dry I feel drunk on expectation as I stagger

To my journeys end

Or have I travelled to a new beginning?

Ailsa