Seeing in the Dark

"When you turn to the right or when you turn to the left, your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, "This is the way, walk in it."  Isaiah 30:20

I'm thinking of the wee,
tiny cubs, born
blind and helpless
in the dark
den of winter.
How is it that
they travel,
unseeing,
toward the
life-giving teet
in that small,
dark space? 

What I mean
is that there
must be other
ways of seeing,
of being led
in the darkness -
maybe scent or
some deeper intuition.

But there must
be something
that tells
the lone cicada
to dig upward,
not down,
something that
whispers to the child
in the womb
when the time
has come.

Maybe it is
the voice
that comes
from behind,
as the Prophet says,
whispering
in one's ear,
"This,
is the way
walk in it."  

Whatever it is,
I'm looking now
for that leading.
Now that the lights
are out,
I'm developing
every one
of my senses.

This post is linked with Five Minute Friday.