Enigma Weekend Edition: 'The Compass Points North'

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"The Compass Points North"
Anonymous


The compass points north
Towards that guiding star
A beacon of light
taking travelers toward
predetermined destinations
On maps drawn long ago
by those master cartographers
It’s reliability
constancy
security
I smashed mine long ago
I’d rather wander through darkness
tripping on tangled roots
tumbling through underbrush
to find a path of my own creation.





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