'Fool's Paradise' series

Crossing the Burn

The Quest

Polished smooth by rough hands
is it now darkly waiting
below a foreign chapel
guarded by ignorance
and a large deathless beast ?

Fashioned by the Eastern man
is the quest still worth the risks ?
If the answer lies within us
is the journey just the song
to the tune that's always been there
...and yet we must go on.