Companion

Join me, friend, on this path. You do not know me, but I see in your eyes a question.
This path is worn smooth from many who have come with questions.

Look ahead. Do you see that light? That is where we’re going. Yes, I’ve come this way.

I see you are carrying a burden and you are weary. Let’s rest here in the shade and
you can lay it down for a while.

How free you must feel without its weight! Do you still have a use for it? Are you
carrying it for someone?

I, too, carried many burdens. I forgot their weight, so familiar had these burdens become.

There is a safe place ahead near the river. Oh, that glorious sound! Do you hear it?
Its music feeds this beautiful flower that blooms along the way. Its silver song rains
peace upon the thirsty soul. Listen…