What the Ancestor Said - by Lisa Phoenix

You thought
you had failed,
that you were
lost, a
loser

wandering
and desolate,
or merely
stuck
and numb

But always
you did
what was
needed:
striving and
surviving,
engaging love
and longing,
confused,

yet
finding what
you never
lose

always on
your path,
after all
always
coming
home