FOLLOW

A soul looking upward
Steps guided on the ground
Walked out from the woods
And into a town

The ones that were there
With eyes cast down
Watched the path of the stranger
And looked up, gathered round

"Can you see heaven?
Are we all fools?
Do you know God?
What are the rules?"

And the stranger said back,
"We are, I am you,
God is in all of us
Rules create fools"

"Look up alone and
Your eyes too can see,
hands, heart and mind open
We were all, always free"

They followed the stranger
who tried to stay with them
as they circled around
To praise and harness him

They built a pedestal
That almost reached the sky
And hoisted the stranger
To make him reign on high

So they could look up
And see him there
And make him their guidepost
To make them aware

Turning the wheels
With pulley and rope
The stranger was lifted, unwilling
And the people had hope

And the stranger called down,
"We are, I am you,
God is in all of us
You are, I am you"

The raised him up to the top
and as the crowd cheered and yelled
He made a noose from their harness
Jumped,
And hung himself.

(c)pauley p.