Off to Africa

i was a pilgrim in early life
i traveled at night
bound for Jordan
just ten miles north
of a civil war

immersed in mercy
and holy flood
that mingled with blood
my sextant headed for homebound lands
and twilight sands

but I grew weary and too far gone
to carry on
at first my homeland my empire soon
would there assume

~caedmons call (the kingdom)