Pathways

Many of the pathways I take in life will lead to nowhere  
And I shall find my self there  
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I seek a far and shadowed distance  
Deepening shadow 'neath the fir and pine  
A place where silence speaks if you but listen  
And in the silences I shall learn to hear again  
And to see anew  
There
Where pathways are dappled by sunlight and shadow  
And colored with greens of varied hues.  

What is distance to the forested hills  
Which roll like the swells of a living green ocean  
For one cannot travel as the crow flies here  
Among twists and turns, root and stone  
And tree falls lain in old growth woods  
 
There is a rushing sound in the tree tops  
As the evening breeze flutters the leaves  
Sounding like rain, golden in the setting sun  
Carrying bird songs from here and there  
And with the passing of day, settling down  
 
It's warm this evening too but comfortable  
Flush with the greens the fullness of summer brings  
I like the coming quiet as shadows grow long  
The blue of the sky deepening in the dusk  
 
Night whispers with the coming stars  
What is measure to the vastness of heaven  
With stars far and wide, deep as the eye can see  
 
There is a call kindred spirit  
Can you not feel it in the air  
Unplug  
Are you not awake  
Does the hawk cry not carry weight in your soul  
Or the night sky draw you in  
 
Left and right lose their meaning  
Here where east is sunrise and west sunset  
And moss grows on the north of tree and stone  
Opposite the warmth of the south