I'M Just Getting Started
It was an uphill long climb, grueling for me,
up the precipitous slope called career,
unpredictably slippery and tenuously craggy,
I followed the winding contours with tenacity
leading me to the summit people called success
where the sky of aspiration seemed limitless.
It’s time now to hang up the boots,
begin the downhill descend on bare foot,
realize how difficult it is to climb down
the discarded forlorn track to nowhere
in the darkness of obscurity,
for the limelight has disappeared.
I’m just getting started
to embark on a lonely last mile journey
over the debris of defoliated trees,
once looking up to the seamless sky,
through the dwindling dale
where shards of time roll uncounted
to remote emptiness where the bells will toll
for me to start the ultimate voyage to eternity.
September 22, 2019
Contest : I'm just getting started
Sponsor : John Hamilton
May 5, 2020
Contest : Brian's Choice 3, Any Form, Any Theme
Sponsor : Brian Strand
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