Where am I going
Where is this road taking me
How am I going to get past this
I stop
Reconnoitre
Check the maps
Consider my options
Except for some times
I stop
Reconnoitre
Check the maps
Consider my options
Except for some times
And o’er it all
Arced golden steel
To celebrate
The westward move
I remind myself
The valley once
Was plateau
Thrust up high
Then worn away
By time and weather
When the unimaginable
Becomes reasonable
Imagination soars
Water will not run uphill
It will not run fast across a plain
It will not run at all
Where no rain falls
Now I walk with a gentle deference
Listen, when I might have spoken
Forgive, when I might have challenged
Let go, when I might have held on
I feel so naked
Exposed
And alone
Like in the dream
Where you’re at school
Or at work
Without any clothes on
And you’re the only one
And you can’t figure out
Just how you got to be there
Without any clothes