My Trek

I left my home just after dawn.
My journey had begun.
I was walking toward those distant hills, facing the rising of the sun.
I need to feel the earth as I walk, hear sounds and smells so sweet.
The rushing water in the streams, green, soft grasses beneath my feet.
My mind is clear, my thoughts on things I need to feel and understand.
God must have loved Alaska; it was he who formed this land.
I feel that I, though just a speck, my journey just begun, know now for sure as God made me, he made the land of the midnight sun.


May 26, 1983 Lois E. Schoppe