ODE TO NEW DIRECTIONS SUPPORT GROUP

Your life's story
takes place in mazes
You wander them
no guiding map
and signs in unknown
languages
that no one translates
Your invisible disease
Gives you leper status
people don't dare talk to
you,
fearing it might be catching
They have a disease
common to humanity
Its symptoms are:
Hardness of heart,
Deliberate blindness,
Ear stoppage,
and mind closing
Their hallucinations
see you as demonic
and whisk you away
to padded cells.

Travel down another path
see a forever light shining
where all human doors,
windows
and alleys never close
This maze's door
opens to New Directions
where similar souls
have traveled mazes before
Enter this new portal
and step into the room
where these souls
unite as one
helping one another
to travel into new lives.

(c) Linda 2007