Midweek Encouragement

This week I had the urge to publish another poem written by Dorothy Walters*. Searching through posts to find which poem I had already published so as not to duplicate, I was gobsmacked to see that it was a year ago that her poem appeared - November 30, 2012.  
This poem is for you if encroaching daily darkness makes you sad, a miserable cold is sapping all your energy, or holiday planning thus far seems a burden. 

EVEN IF YOU HAVE TRUDGED

It is never too late. 

Even if you have trudged

through snow and ice for a thousand miles

and still have not arrived.

Even if the map is lost

and the compass broken.

When the eagle who is

supposed to guide you

goes off on a tangent

of its own

and you know you are,

once again, deserted

do not fall into 

the pit of despair.

It will return,

brighter than ever.

There will be feather tokens

falling down.

Nothing is irredeemable.

Nothing is lost forever.

Be guided by the stars.

Let the moonlight

direct your steps.

There will be a path

which will open

in the forest.

The treasure which is yours

is waiting.

Thanks for exploring the mystery - Nicky Mendenhall

*The Ley Lines of the Soul (2012), Dorothy Walters. Used with permission.