Trial Trail

Have you wed your wildness
And divorced the daily dread?
Travelled back on familiar roads
To rewrite the stories in your head?

Listened to the desert’s theme
The tune by songbirds sung?
Breathed in the Mother’s oxygen
Washing over heart and lung

A myriad of metaphors
Beyond the trailhead are found
Life’s textbook pages turn
Between the sky and ground

The sandy creek bed holding space
For the river’s water flow
The duality of Yin and Yang
A lesson nature often shows

Uncharted paths that lie ahead
Growth edges to explore
Caring cairns placed on the way
By those who’ve gone before