Whenever you’re in darkness
When life becomes too cluttered
And your path seems all confusion
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?
Vancouver
British Columbia, Canada
Taken on location for “The Magicians”, 2015