I Am A Path With So Many Conduits Poem by RIC BASTASA

i am a path with so many conduits
so please do not follow me
every path leads to a hundred paths
and you shall be lost
but keep the faith and love
and soon you will find
the only way

leading to my heart

when you reach there
(do not use your mind)

you may see yourself grieving
i have long been taken away

and i have no words or substance
no flesh or even bones

use the skin of your fingertips
to feel the dust

see the stain and do not ever wash
what is there is there

i am the eye staring at you, drowsy
about the coming

of something that is yet to be known
you shall not understand

neither shall i.