Guiding Light

Photo by Christopher Burns on Unsplash

How does the seabird feel
deep into her migration
over the vast expanse
of empty ocean?

With nothing but the
endless horizon and
the great dome of the sky
to hold her fragile body

All the world reduced to
her tiny beating heart
and that deep longing
that calls her into the horizon

Is there some distant light that guides her?
Do magnetic lines appear within her sight?

Or is it perhaps
not unlike a feeling
that we also know —

That mysterious sense
that comes from underneath

© Simon Wade 2020