Lodestar : Alice Walker

Here is what I believe

will be the hardest thing to do:

to remember

that we have

a soul.

It is so quiet

the soul

and weighs

almost nothing.

It might flash

across

our dullest days

only once or twice

in a lifetime.

That it is there:

just the certainty

of knowing

must be

our lodestar.

(from her collection : Taking the Arrow Out of the Heart.)