“Lead On…”

 

Photo by Lisa R. Palmer

from my Pilgrimage, August 2015

 

Today I feel like a horse on a lead

a fish on a line

a dog on a leash…

 

Being led from one place to the next

one post to another

one step beyond…

Where I have been before.

 

All around me I notice…

 

Things…

I ought to be doing.

 

People…

I ought to be contacting.

 

Tasks…

I ought to be accomplishing.

 

And yet…

 

I don’t.

And I cannot help but wonder why?

 

I could choose to wear blinders today,

to ignore that sense of “failure,”

to focus on my goal,

whatever it might be.

 

But I don’t.

And I cannot help but wonder why?

 

I want to embrace it All, I guess

even if I can’t engage

for I am being led

to something else instead.

 

I wonder if this journey will lead

somewhere valuable to Me?

I wonder if it will be worth

the sacrifices asked of me?

 

But I know…

 

That though I know not where this goes

it leads somewhere.

And that somewhere, along this road

an answer waits for me.

 

So I choose to travel on

step by dragging step

turning my heart forward

while my eyes embrace the rest.

 

Lead on…

Lead on, my friend.

I am with you

until the end.

 

© Lisa R. Palmer, 2016