You, Too, Are a Pilgrim

“Look!” she exclaimed. 
I followed her clue toward 
the glinting blue, and I saw 
a flock of birds on an expedition. 

As if on cue, they fly together
through miles and miles of sky, 
throughout their long route 
above paths of rivers and over
margins of hills. 

They are pilgrims, she claimed, 
going the usual distance season
after season of their celebration 
of a voyage.

Like how you, too, move across 
beliefs, whether you figure out 
your own escape route or not,
or skip your biases above 
your misery and lack of conviction.  

Then she said it again, 
“The ocean is calm today. 
So let me hold your hand!”

The clouds are happy up there,
as the world turns. The dragonflies 
flit by down here, their gauzy wings 
luminous under the sun.

And we keep our faith in them.