Along the road

A long way along the road

You turn to look back

And finally see clearly

Where you have been

As an inner view opens up

To a reality you could not fathom before

Entangled as it was all around

With briars and bushes

A rose thicket

Grown wild for want of care

 

A long way along the road

Exhausted from the journey

You sit down and weep

For all that was

All that was not

And everything that could have been

Tears soften your vision

As the focus recalibrates

Hidden secrets are illuminated

As husks crack open in your heart

 

And as you sit amongst the stones and dust

From somewhere deep within

You hear a choir of angels sing

Asking you feel and travel even further

And forgive everything