Traveling Ancient Roads

Foraging through time's annals Peering through the faded panels Catching a glint through corroded channels Seeking the sallowing bridges to re-enamel Shuffling along desert lanes beaten down by Assyrian chariot trains Walking subsumed Royal Persian road, linking cultural chains Striding through exhumed Alexandrian cities' ethnocentric strains Strolling pebbled Roman boulevards accentuated by aqueduct drains Riding the Mongolian steppes listening to the murderous refrains Traipsing through gold-crowned Ottoman mosques sprouting Christian veins Lumbering penitently along Via Dolorosa grasping sacrificial blood stains