Sunday, September 29, 2024

Dusty roads sept 11, 2024

  

this is not what it was

nor will ever be again

 the dust of the past

clings to our heels

yet does not bring us

back in time

the long road we walk

 from youth to old age

is a one-way journey

 from which we must learn

 how to keep moving forward

 not linger too long

not to get lost

detoured

 into some dead end

from which we need

to constantly backtrack

what remains constant

 then now and always

is what we feel

 the stuff we

sometimes mistake as baggage

 when in fact

 it is the stuff life is made of

 we either carry it with us

 or lose entirely

love being the most precious

commodity we Carry

if we leave it on the roadside

there is no point to go on


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