Pilgrim’s Tracks (poem)

    To the celestial home
through the bleakest night
with the light in the darkness
if the spark is right
sing songs
of time and being
with interminable trials and tares
trudging through muck and mire
of the wicked devil’s snares

   Persist  to the glowing rise of dawn
thankful for the Lord’s work,
and the Holy Spirit’s grace
progress doth persuade the hope
in sight will tend to brace
to carry one to the prize
awaits the pilgrim at journey’s end.