Soul Searcher

I had walked for many days now, I was battered, I was burned 

I carried with me nothing, just the things that I had learned 

My pockets were all empty, yet i wasn't really poor 

I had the clothes that dressed me, and the shoes i seldom wore

I worked when i could find it, i wasn't hard to please 

All i needed was some french wine, some bread and maybe cheese 

When my belly wasn't empty, it was time to move then on

When a new day came a-calling, i had already gone

I would follow to roads somewhere, wherever that they led

When stars shone high above me, i'd find myself a bed

I'd wake with every morning, with a song sung by a bird 

It was the sweetest chorus, that this man had ever heard 

When the rain came down a-poring, and the clouds above were gray 

I'd try to wash my soul clean, and my sins I'd scrub away

It wasn't that I'm so bad, as i did all that i could

But I'm not so sure my spirit, was as honest or as good 

As others walked toward me, they would ask where I had been

I'd tell them of places, and of the beauty I had seen

They paid me no attention, they were all just being nice

As they thought to see such beauty, that there had to a price

Sometimes I'd need to find me, a place where i could sit

And here beside this an old friend, i sat alone with it

I rested my tired body, on the rough bark of a tree

Absorbing all its wisdom, as it tried to comfort me 

This journey that i'd travelled, was the spiritually kind 

To try  and find redemption, and to try to clear my mind

I needed me an answer, and i found it somewhere here

When the gentlest of breezes, whispered softy in my ear

I spent my life just walking, till the day that i then died 

Contented with my journey, and i lifetime simplified 

The last thing that my eyes saw, was the path i'd walk at death

The map of the stars above me, as i took my final breath.