DEEP IN THE FOREST THE TRAVELLER STEPPED

DEEP IN THE FOREST THE TRAVELLER STEPPED

DEEP IN THE FOREST THE FAIRIES CREPED
WATCHING AND WAITING THE GOBLINS COULD SEE
JUST WHERE THE MORTAL MAN WOULD BE
HEARING HIS FOOTSTEPS AND FEELING HIS FEAR
THEY WOULD MEASURE THE DISTANCE AND KNOW WHEN HE IS NEAR
THE TREE RING PULLED TIGHTER WITH EACH STEP HE TOOK
AND FAIRIE EYES WIDENED AS THE FOREST FLOOR SHOOK
THE TRAVELLER WENT FORWARDS TOWARDS JURNEYS END
NO WHERE IN THIS FOREST WOULD HE FIND A FRIEND
HE HURRIED ALONG AS IF IN STEADY FLIGHT
HE KNEW HE WOULD BE LUCKY TO LIVE THOUGH THIS NIGHT
AS HE LOOKED TO THE SKY IN THE MIDST OF HIS PLIGHT
HIS THOUGHTS TURNED TO JESUS AND THE WISE MEN OF OLD
AND THE BIRTH OF THE SAVIOR ON THAT NIGHT
DARK AND COLD
THE WISEMEN HAD TRAVELLED A ROAD JUST AS FAR
ALLTHOUGH HE WAS ONE AND THE WISEMEN
WERE THREE
THE LORD SENT A STAR FOR THE WISEMEN TO SEE
HE LOOKED UP AGINE AND YES YOU WERE RIGHT
THE SKY WAS AGLOW WITH A HEVENLY LIGHT( AMEN)

BY SANDRA JANE MACK