The road ahead is dark
impossible to see – 
why do I keep walking?

There is no sound
to warn of danger up ahead – 
from where does my courage come? 

The empty promises of my fellow travelers
provide no comfort – 
how is it that there is peace in my heart? 

What a mystery it all is to me – 
to be holding the hand of faith
and carry on without answers. 


*With thanks to Verdell Davis for this quote of hers: 
“In the darkness of the tunnel merely ‘keeping on’ becomes a miracle.”