Where Will We Get To?

 

Where will we get to

Is there a better somewhere

Are the things that we’re missing

Waiting for us there

 

The boxes we dwell in

Made of comfort and fear

Were they built upon bargains

Shrinking year after year

 

Are the stories the same ones

Just recalled and retold

Will our words lose their thrust

Do time and truth make them cold

 

Can we make ourselves stronger

By simply setting us free

To be who we are

Instead of who we should be

 

Where will we get to

Can we forecast the weather

Will we find ourselves lost

Or will we gather together

 

Can we unfold our secrets

Lead each other to see

Let our weaknesses bind us

Forging strength in the ‘we’

 

There’s not one living soul

That another can’t find

If open peers the heart

And open keeps the mind

 

We’ll come find each other

But we will never be home

Until we learn to surrender

All that keeps us alone

 

 

                     s. paul (June 2021)