TRAVELING

Traveling weary years on end

I spot red flags as soon as they come around the bend

Not long before it becomes too strong

The feeling convincing me to move along

Does not take much to make me realize

The effort I make no longer worth the prize

I can feel from the start

You never acknowledged my heart

From the very beginning

Much more concerned about who’s winning

Placing you on a higher setting

Only could have ended with me regretting

Bleeding from the past

Still,you ask.

For me to last.

Another blood letting

I can see the lack of respect for me

Not a child you’re able to bribe, then to treat condescendingly

I do not have these scars

From attending weekend seminars

They are bars

That I have set my standards to

Appears high above you

Who would be reaching for the stars

Like others, you will try

To knock me off this orbit I fly

Knowing if I crashed into you,

You’d explode like the Fourth of July

I’ve become a book that you don’t get to add a chapter

You’ve read enough now you want other’s life to author

At whose expense?

With no recompense.

I won’t be one of your medicines

You’ll have to be shown then recognize alone

My pleasantries are merely to steer you

to persevere thru

All the doubts that you own

Take my kindness not for weakness

My status not as no sickness

Being sick is a testament

My test, my own Mt Everest.

Nevertheless you have your own hills to climb

Further up, some things in store you’ll find

One might be, that you are more blind

And yet,…see things clearly what one’s left behind

From the back seeing that all signs are more defined

Let the light be your guide

Which you can see with the eyes of your mind

Luckily in time,

your own stars have aligned

Only wish I have for you,

Is to be blessed by the Divine