Life is like entering a new express way, except there are no signs to guide us,
 no speed limits, no maps to follow.
 The lanes go to infinity
when we are young.
no construction signs, no curves,
just straight ahead with no end in sight. Then as time goes on,
 we grow braver and braver
 and like Pegasus fly too high, too fast and we pay the price. 

We miss exits we should have taken, take those we should have bypassed,
 and we call it "making choices".
But always, without realizing it,
we have a constant companion. Whatever choice we make,
wherever it leads us,
 our companion is with us. 

We may fly with Pegasus,
soar with the eagles,
 fall and think we are destroyed
 but like the Phoenix,
 rise up again and start over.
 Always with our constant companion. Unseen, but with us.

We may live up to some expectations, live down to others,
but as long as we breathe, we live,
 with our constant companion.
We may sit in the forest,
stroke the long silky mane
 of the Unicorn,
watch the Faeries play in the brook
and listen to the happy song
 of brilliant cardinals
or the worried cry of a protective wren, but whatever we do,
we have our companion.  

Our companion who walks with us,
that no one else can see.

Our companion that talks with us,
 but no one else can hear. 

Our companion who  never lies to us, never deceives us,
and from whom we can hide no truth.

Our Conscience. 

The one who looks back at me
 in the mirror when I say
 "I did the best I could"
 And knows I did. 

The one who listens when I say
"I loved with all my being",
And knows I speak truth. 

The one I see
when I close my eyes and pray for sleep, knows I flew with Pegasus
and fell with the Phoenix,
but knows I speak truth
 when I say,
 "Like the Beautiful Phoenix,
 I too will rise from the ashes,
 and again, fly with Pegasus, 

My Conscience.

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You think Pegasus a Myth?

A Fantasy?

Then step outside
on some cool dark night,
 look high into the Black Velvet sky, 

PEGASUS AS A CONSTELLATION 

Pegasus is a constellation
 of the Northern Celestial 
Hemisphere, found well up
 in the evening sky of autumn. 
A large square called
 the Great Square of Pegasus 
marks it in the sky.