Poem about Spirituality

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Very beautifully written poem.. I like the meaning, and the vivid symbols You use to convey them. This emotional poem sure got through good to my soul. Thank You!

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The Sign

Published by Family Friend Poems December 2008 with permission of the Author.

I wake to find a scene unkind, on vessel I do stand.
Adrift at sea; lost, scared and cold; in desperate need of land.

From whence came I? What purpose here? Which course should I set sail?
My heart longs after former home, yet all my senses fail.

Rotating, searching, looking out; no means to tell the way.
And so I drift with every wind, more helpless day by day.

Shall this continue endlessly? Shall sea become despair?
A purpose there must surely be, a course to chart...but where?

Then pausing, pondering, opening up...a prompting, "Look above."
In yonder sky, a wisp of white, a sign of hope: a dove.

"Set sail," my heart cries. "Follow thence. T'wil surely guide to shore."
Yet speed I've not. I fall behind. The sign I see no more.

But all's not lost. The way I know and if to this course I'm true.
Then home I shall be once again...my mansion built anew.

ABOUT THE POET:

I am not trained formally in writing or any other art. Studied math and engineering through all of my schooling, but I have always been an artist at heart and so I have head closely to it and use it is my escape. In a very literal way, writing poems and songs gives me the ability of to go anywhere in the universe and live as many lives as I...

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