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