There is a place yet unknown

There is a place yet unknown
A forest overgrown
Hath long awaited
The day

When travellers
Would hasten that way
Into its enchanted
Grove

Ah for treasure there
Delight that come
May recite its wonders
If the time they take
To partake in its
Pleasures

Where might one be
Who could chance to know
For in a place as this
Anything imaginable

Yet long hath it waited
And all the world debated
What could it be
This unnamed mystery

Many wars fought
And many lives lost
And still at what cost
To know what wonders
Are hidden there

Yet no one has found
Courage enough
To roam in its
Realm

For fear
Hath marked it
Year upon year
And age upon age

Waiting beckoning
Never without hope
That one day
A traveller

Would wander that way
Into the woods of that place
How calm would it be
At last for one to come
And see

Yet courage must steer
The heart of fear
And look past its
Foreboding

And enter
For then at last
The mystery unravelled
And joy anew
Might settle as dew

For at last
One's troubles past
Are worth their weight
For the woods
In wonder

At last
Hath they
Awakened

-Joshua Lee Foist