Pausing Beside the Roadway

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Open Poetry #28

Pausing Beside the Roadway

Professor Gloom
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since 2000-07-23

Posts 3082
of Depression

0 posted 2003-09-08 07:31 AM

Deep in my mind it can be any time
From a moment ago to many years,
So in an old thought memory will find
A place long before the shedding of tears.
I was a boy visiting the country
And the general store was a long walk
Not like on the corner in the city
It was miles away and we got to talk
He the youngest I the youngest also
Both different with several years between
He knew the dirt road and which way to go
As we took shortcuts through the fields of green
We paused beside the roadway we had walked
We paused within the conversation talked
Not in a hurry silent for a time
Sweating beneath a summer sun that sears
I enjoyed the peacefulness of country
I was slightly tired from the long walk
And we took a drink from the nearby stream,
Hidden so only explorers might know.
That was something I had found out that day,
We were explorers in a different way,
Finding places that others could not know
Because they were in a hurry to go
And didn’t care to pause and look for more
Couldn’t find the time to pause and explore.

Gloom
In memory of Scott, my first cousin

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