The Voyage of Life

We are low.

Underground

but we wish that it were not so.

Then, suddenly, we are bursting through the ground

Unexpectedly

on a voyage

to jump and reach the sky.

And so we start.

We walk

through hills and valleys

through the calm and the storm

the quiet river before a

plummeting

waterfall

sometimes stopping

but refusing to quit.

Finally we get closer

and we look at the trees around us

greeting us with their branches

Smiling simultaneously

our hearts filled

with wonder at this voyage

that we went through

in all its serendipity

We are glad

Oh so glad!

As we are seen off

by the seraphs

And that when we arrive

not only do we jump

to reach the sky,

But we fly

to touch the stars.