Unlooked For Help.

Walking lonely through the dark In the night time I did embark Upon a mission to clear my mind Answer to questions I wish to find I walk onward through quiet streets My footstep noises aloud repeats As I approach in the nightly dark To my destination, the local park Though its shady tree lined lanes My mind wonders stressed and strained And as my boot falls echo gently My minds progresses differently It swirls and curls and rages on All concentration is withdrawn To solve the riddle in my mind To the key I’m currently blind As I progress across the grass My shoulder acquires a new mass A crow there sits as black as night Fixing me with its beady sight I jump and start and this intrusion Causing a stumble and contusion But the crow it seems wants to stay So my shoulder its weight will weigh So as I return to my cogitation This crow proved an aberration It speak with a voice all gruff And a manner that was quite bluff It said in its own raucous way That I was being rather fey To let this matter of heart intrude And drag so long with no conclude I tried to shoo this troubling bird Finding its gruff advice absurd Who is this thing to offer opinion? Surely it is the devils minion The avian conscience would not loose Just offer more words of seeming abuse Telling me to lay this love to rest That in this matter its advice is best Failure to remove this nasty creature Caused me to ignore the feathery preacher I thus returned to my deliberation Trying to recover my old elation But my new friend continued to tell That I was the cause of my personal hell Thus he proceeded until at my door When he return to his home once more That night my sleep was trouble and light With the voice of the crow ever a blight His words slowly sunk into my brain The gruffness was gone but the sense was plain I awoke from my dream with clear mind, Wondering why I had been so blind I have been living in a world gone by Missing the wonders of a sunny July I thank that crow so noble and black For finding my life and giving it back I now move forward into the light I will no longer walk alone in the night