The lost path to joy

I see it clearer every day

How along the way

I lost the path to joy

When heavy strictures kept me bound

There was precious little fun

To be found

In living a life where slowly one by one

Meaningful connections were torn away

Leaving me sitting all alone

With my heart so torn apart

So far removed

From the essence of love and celebration

And so it was I came to feel

Only a hollow person left behind

Tied by invisible threads

To a place of unrequited longing

Fearing all desire

Could only lead to frustration

And so it was I began to be 

Unrecognisable to myself

And so the antidote I supplied

Was to learn to hide

And fold myself up inside 

And when the pain was bad enough

In some strange way

It also helped me

To find the path of feeling

Both highs and lows

And all that left me reeling

Returned me over time to discover

The hidden truth of reality

Obscured underneath veils of fear

And mixed up imaginings

And then it was that the light could be revealed

And now clarity is dawning

After all these years

As life reappears amidst the grains

I digested

And so it is that after

All the winds and storms and rains

I am slowly finding my way back again

To the precious path of joy

Finding the lost path

To the healing road

Of surrendered feeling

That carries my wayward soul

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