The New Path Tread

THE NEW PATH TREAD

As the music pours through my being

I wonder what it is I’m seeing

Thoughts and emotions come pouring down

Scattering their energy, all around

In this peculiar place, I am found

At times I want to leap for joy

And at others I am annoyed

T’is the middle ground I travel

Lest straying lead to unravel

I am often now, deep in thought

Reflecting on what I have sought

Sometimes what we think we need

Is really what we should not heed

By sloughing off, the layers of old

And open ourselves to being bold

To take a step in a direction not tried

To know what can hold us back, like pride

So I stick my neck out, beyond my shell

Taking a risk in which time will tell

I look forward, to these new days

And know life may change in new ways

So in truth, what is to come

Will bring about change, in what I’ve become

I let go of the past, and embrace the new

And cherish the spirit, my soul it doth renew

-Shiidon, August 2009

I was sitting again at my desk and listening to music. Gortoz A RAN, J'Attends from the movie Black Hawk Down. It is enchanting. This poem streamed out of me as I listened to this music. I am writing, it seems, about change. I will say a bit more about this in the next poem I post.