I once was lost in the woods as a child

 I once was lost in the woods as a child,

soon a voice replied to me,

“go that way”.


It was a voice I did not question.

It was a voice I did not know,

but did not not know.

I found my way back to camp.


It was years before that voice returned.

When I heard it again,

I recognized it as my own.

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