finding a path

toward the light   

most everyone needs to be seen
to be noticed
to be appreciated,

all of us come forth
from a warm fluid oneness,
from a dark out of which we awake,
and we make our way through the cold
toward the light that calls to the light within us,

and, like any hero in legend, we’re not sure of the way:
we blunder, we stumble the wrong way,
sure we should go that way until we know we shouldn’t have,
and, if we’re lucky, we can find ourselves not alone,
two heads & hearts better than one,
and even more points can help us triangulate toward truth,
for truth is a wisp like many shimmers before us,
and it takes help to be sure the light without
connects truly to the light within,

as to my career I’ve worked
to see,
to notice,
to appreciate,
to walk with kids awhile
and help them all find their way to keep moving forward,
so that all of us can move toward a light that knows us,
that calls to us,

and then each of us can be home again
and realize the promise whispered to us
before we saw any potential path open before us.

by Henry H. Walker
October 10, ’12