Aimless Path, False Light

A path of unknown destination

Traveling endlessly round and round the same circles

Never moving far forward

Many dreams and visions of the future

Little to none have come to pass

In the bright light of promise

Doubt looms an overwhelming shadow

Most others dance in the light

While the few toil silently in the darkness

Trapped in an unseen cage with no bars

Burning with a desire to fly free

An ember that refuses to extinguish

The path forward hidden by false light

Clarity found in the shadows

While the false sun blinds the way

The moon's glow gently reveals many paths

And yet no clear sense of direction

Many lead toward brief joys and pleasures

Others offer comfort and stability

Some come with hardships and purpose

Yet refusing to travel the easiest of paths

For they often lead to endless sorrow

Some even fall into an endless abyss

While some break free of the shackles

And others just succumb to the eternal darkness

Forever lost to it never again knowing freedom or joy

Hope falls like rain

The drops always slipping through fingers

Despair offers an embrace with claws of ice

But refuses to submit to it's false comfort

While the path ahead is dark and uncertain

Better to move onward like an aimless wind

Then remain still like a stagnant pond

Life awaits in an unknown horizon

A hard bitter journey in shadows

While others follow a false light

To be mislead toward a path of suffering

In the midst of hollow empty promises

Life is never bound to any one path

To be trapped in the false light

Is to be needlessly hindered by fellow travelers

While a path of shadows remains unseen

For those who travel in shadows

They will often stumble along the path

But with fewer fellow travelers

Every false light is destined to be extinguished

And those that follow blindly are lost in darkness

Chained in place by fear

Unsure of where to go

Waiting for a new false light

For those who travel in shadows aren't afraid of the darkness

The moon's soft glow keeps the darkness at bay

But it's not the moon those who travel in shadows follow

They follow the spark that resides in the shadows

That spark isn't as bright as the sun

It glows softly like the moon

That spark shows the way in the path of shadows

Though it does not promise any known destination

Nor does it offer any false empty promises

The path of shadows is long and hard

And the journey could be endless

But those who follow that spark are never truly lost