THE TRAVELLER

When I set out to travel

I'll drop the shadow

The shadow of being someone

Someone you or anyone else knows

I'll lie back in the anonymity

And stretch out my possibilities

The possibility that my North Star is on a sabbatical

And my Crazy Star is on the rise

Could I be foolish and yet make you smile?

Could I be mindless and yet come out wise?

Could I wander and yet not be lost?

Could I find a new address that is not home?

Could I swim in an infinity of strangers

And find something to share with each one of them?

Could I do something for the sheer fun of it

And not feel plummeted by the 'what ifs'?

I will be that traveller

Where I'll be the chorus in the silence

Where I'll be the applause in the noise

Where I won't be Someone you know

But I'll still be the One who Knows.