I glance behind sensing that I’ll see
It’s only myself standing behind me
I wonder why I should trust you
Not knowing if you are
Toying with me or
If you are trustworthy enough
That I should believe you’d send me on the right path
You possessing some kind of unerring wisdom
So pointing me on a way toward
What out there
Why should I follow any directions you give me
We never having met until this moment late in life
It’s true I learned to swim out into deep water long ago
But I was young and strong then
In a past almost as distant
As I was last in the water since
So that this water you tell me to swim out into now
Is even darker water and deeper for that distance
You and I are such strangers until now
A meeting of mind
Never having happened before
No depths plumbed ever
On the path I’ve traveled along so far
But now I see not if
I’ll take this pathway out
I sense I’ll not remember we finally met
For a brief moment
Where in an instant
I took on faith to believe you
And swim out this unknown way you directed me to go
Lanning Lee 