A Journey to Nowhere

I started to type

Not knowing what to write

Not an idea in my head

Not sure where I’d be led

But write on I did

Anticipating in in my bid

To uncover the lid

And tap into my brain’s grid

All like now still not sure

Regarding what’s in store

But proceeding in hope

Up this unfamiliar slope

Into the fourth verse

No chance to rehearse

But deeply immersed

I continue the course

I don’t know the way

Hence I could take all day

Not sure what to say

Not sure when I stray

Have not done this before

Can’t see an open door

But on I bore

Hoping more and more

I paused at this spot

This was as far as I got

And as you can see

I have not said a lot

How to proceed

I have lost my feed

But the idea to stop

I just can’t heed

A journey to nowhere

The same as now here

And when I arrive

I won’t know I’m there

  

But on I go

Maybe just to and fro

Sometimes high sometimes low

But where, I just don’t know

Why continue you ask

On this tedious task

Why proceed further

Knowing you can’t last

Curiosity drives me

I just hope you can see

It’s like being tied up

And longing to be free

Free from what

That’s the question

Not knowing the answer

That’s my apprehension

I will review 

What I thought you knew

So just for you

I’ll repeat verses one and two

I started to type

Not knowing what to write

Not an idea in my head

Not sure where I’d be lead

But write on I did

Anticipating in my bid

To uncover the lid

And tap into my brain’s grid

Thus far not much success

At the point of couldn’t care less

Going nowhere fast

And still can’t rest

Your life is ordered to rule

So you take me for a fool

Setting out on a journey

Without a guiding tool

No doubt you’re right

Certainly in my case

But check for yourself

You too might be a waste

I hadn’t composed for a while

That’s really not my style

So I was compelled to write

Not knowing what to type

I have written a plenty

I just completed verse twenty

Hopefully all’s not gone

As I complete verse twenty-one

You can count them

If you like

Add the current verse

And twenty-two would be right

Just a little diversion

In the journey to nowhere

Bear with me a little

And I’ll soon take you there

Your life is ordered to rule

So you take me for a fool

Setting out on a journey

Without a guiding tool

No doubt you’re right

Certainly in my case

But check for yourself

You too might be a waste

By now I hope you see

Like me you too are guilty

Like me you started to type

Not sure what to write

But you type on nevertheless

Giving it your very best

Amidst the daily grind

With little periods of rest

From day one you typed

Not sure of what to write

But as you got a little older

Something came into sight

You became aware

You were in the middle of life

With its many diversions

And times of diverse strife

A lot was misunderstood

Each end was another beginning

And the journey kept on going

Sometimes quite head spinning

Though I didn’t know it then

Nowhere was really somewhere

And when I reached that point

I still wasn’t quite there

Acknowledging I was a fool

I accepted life’s guiding tool

Jesus is my shepherd and guide

I am now typing by his rule

He shows me how to type

And tells what to write

By faith I follow His lead

Wholly dependent on His feed

Sometimes there are diversions

And interferences of my own

But His Spirit always assures me

He’ll never leave me alone

At the beginning of this poem

This is not what I intended

But with Jesus ordering the typing

This is where it has ended

Stewart Russell © July 2017