The Journey of Life

THE JOURNEY OF LIFE

We journey on the road of life

To a destination unknown

Looking, with trusting hearts and faith

That the way will be shown

 

Each step a chapter

On this trek of life

Some with joy

Some with strife

 

Many a fork do we find

Which way do we go?

Or do we mark time

Eventually decide we must

Onward we go

With open hearts we trust

 

As time marches on

The pace increases

Our imagined immortality

Shattered to pieces

This ephemeral world

Losing its hold

 

The tests come and go

What do they show?

We pass them and go on

Or repeat them

Till we grow

 

Intertwined on this journey

We call life

Are the paths of other’s

From which learning is rife

They come and go

Sometimes hastily

Sometimes slow

 

At times it is meant for one to show

And then at times others must go

Sometimes we are not ready to see

With whom destiny has meant for us to be

Or once the time is right

They come within sight

And then we know

that everything’s all right

 -Shiidon, January 2009

This poem has been long in coming.  I noticed over time the metaphor that the road is for life. Whether we are in Austin, China, Japan, Vietnam, Denmark or most other countries we will see roads marked with yellow or white stripes down their center.  If you concentrate on just that one thing, you could be almost anywhere in the world.  The other interesting fact is how much faster the strips go by and how short they seem the faster we go on this road.  Like life, there are mergings, intersections and even dead ends.  While at first I saw this poem actually using symbols of strips on the road and other similar descriptions, I found that this poem unravelled in my mind instead.

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