tags: The Road Goes Ever On and On

2000

October

2000 Oct 27
Scrawlings

I am so tired. There were things I would like to scrawl down. If only it were possible to write while driving.

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December

2000 Dec 31
Sadness

I am sad, sad, sad, and maybe it's the SAD bearing down on me, or maybe it's the ending of a year without much to show for it. I feel like I've been preparing to go down the Road forever, too afraid to take that first step, and when I finally [do it], I keep running back home, even though home doesn't [really] exist now, it's something I have to build, but the amount of work required is daunting.

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2003

June

2003 Jun 12
Despite It All, There Is Still Hope

Sure, I’m not dying, I just can’t think of anything better to do.

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2007

May

2007 May 13
years upon end

Reminiscing about distant journeys
lost in the murky mist of my fading memories
down that Mother Road, and the paths of generations past
to the south side and the lake shore
and back again
to the mountain pass and to the Sea
the years wash upon the sands, wave after wave

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July

2007 Jul 7
so sick

Maybe I just need to get into a rhythm. Usually I look forward to the summertime, never mind that I rarely get time off anyway. But I just feel, I dunno, bleh.

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November

2007 Nov 25
grains of sand in an hourglass

Come December, and the end of the year is nigh
and though the air is dry and warm
the sky glimmers, shimmers with cloudy gray
and the waning sunlight casts long shadows
upon the cold blue sea

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December

2007 Dec 11
the longest road

Just when you thought it couldn’t get lonelier. Just when you thought it couldn’t possibly get any more difficult than it already is. There will be no resting on any laurels. The road ahead climbs up steeply, into the forbidding vault of the heavens.

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2015

February

2015 Feb 25
the road

when all is said and done, you cannot belong to me because souls cannot own one another
but with our free will, we can choose to walk down this road together
hand in hand and heart to heart
to build the rest of our lives together in whatever time we’re given

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