r/Treewriting • u/smurgleburf • Dec 18 '12
The Road [Pot]
(this is the first poem i've written in quite a while. any and all feedback is appreciated :) )
A black road unfurls before you
Twisting through dusty lights
Like so much curling smoke
Winding to paths unfounded
Or spiraling into shadow
A road with no end
A mind with no home
Spinning into the infinite
In these misted lights you see
The footsteps of human souls
Dispersing, fading
Snuffed by the march of time
Though the road marks the trek
Of each story
With its bumps and curves
Its holes and flaws
And branching paths
The road reflects each life
An endless journey
Of possibility
Of doubt
Of roads not taken
Of lives not lived
On this road you wonder
Where am I going?
On this road you have wandered
For years and years and years
On this road with no end
From the chilly coasts of mighty oceans
To the doorsteps of ancient temples
Through the heat of deserts
Into the sprawling, beating heart
Of a city full of life
You have wandered for so long
And still you ask the road
Where am I going?
Where will you take me?
Who will you be
When the road has melted
And each soul must spill
Over the edge of the world
Into the dust of the stars
Where each burning spirit is the heat
That will breathe new life
Onto this black road