Like Evangeline
Like Evangeline I will search for you henceforth
Through dream and world and life and death and beyond
Through valleys low echoing with my calls
And mountain peaks shouting back my cries
I will go on and I will not lose hope........
The birds may take my pleas to you in pity
The wolf may howl my heart song in the night
But I will never stop my journey towards you
I will not concede my loss and fight.
The world is not so large a place that you are lost forever
In it's jungles, streets, it's woodlands and it's glens
The eye of my heart will surely find your hiding place
And joy will overflow me once again.
I search, though foot weary and soul tired
I search, though humbled by the lack of sight
Very little in the way of clues has guided me thus far
But still, I look for you, my love, and I swear, will not turn back!
And if, like Evangeline, I find you there at death's door, waiting
I will not say that my journey was fruitless or call the searching
Wasteful of my life.......
I will say, as that one did, in anguish and in joy incomprehensible:
Father, thank You for the beating heart that beat in time with mine
And for the warmth that slipped away to cold there in my hands
The love I felt one last sweet time as sweet as that I bear you now.
Still searching, still looking, still walking.......
The roads of the earth that will, one day, lead me back to you.
©by Voo
Feb 9 2005
10:30 p.m.
https://explorepartsunknown.com/southern-louisiana/a-cajun-myth-an-oak-tree-and-a-search-for-meaning/
