one step at a time

I walk along a path,
alone now,
darkened by eyes
that cannot see,
carrying what I must,
what I truly need,

when every door,
every way,
closed behind me,
this one opened
in the eerie silence,
calling out to me -
the howl of wolves
stroking and waking
every follicle of hair
on my clammy skin,

and so I look ahead now
with reddened eyes,
stoked by flames rising
from this coiled belly;
there is no way
but this one now,
as I walk alone,
held by the ground,
unfolding with the light
of every step taken
into the swirling darkness,
where I'm never lost,
only found,
one step at a time.