Finding the light

Just find the light
And follow it
You’ll find yourself
And be renewed

And so I tried
When I was lost
To find the source
Which lights my way

I looked to friends
And family
I went to sacred places

Hiked up to peaks
Then down the valley
And sat on many beaches

And though my pain
Was always less
When I was out
There searching

I never found
The light I sought
So still the dark
Was ling’ring

Until one day
I gave it up
This fruitless search
For light

I sat right there
And closed my eyes
And thought that I
Would cry

But as the tears
Were gathering
I listened to
My breath

In I breathed
Out I breathed
With each breath I
Grew Calmer

I let it go
My pain
The dark

I let it go…
The place
To start

For then I saw
Through my closed eyes
The light I’d sought
But never found

There deep inside
My beating heart
The light, of course
Was my own core

When next I saw my spirit-guide
I shared my tale of finding light
And when I told her where it was
She replied,

Where else would it be?