She Walks This Road Alone
She ventures down the lonely road
She starts with her great love at her side
They walk hand in hand
enjoying the beauty on every side
The silence is deafening amongst the choir of crickets
The radiance of the wildflowers
that fill her senses with glorious colour
As she stops to admire
And take in all her senses can hold
She realizes she has gotten off the path
She walks the road alone
The road is getting so much harder now
It starts to lead uphill
The beauty still surrounds but the thickness of the vines
Wrap themselves around the trees and onto the path
Almost tripping up her feet making progress so slow
She sees him off in the distance, moving quickly and increasing the gap
The sunlight streams through open sky
But Darkness creeps in like a snake coming in for its catch
She knows that there is a part of this road
she is destined to walk alone
No-one else can walk beside her
No-one else can understand
She carries too much to hold his hand
As she picks up the flowers along the way
The bouquet is getting larger
Are they flowers or are they weeds?
Harder to discern
At times the path gets easier, and she sees her love in sight
The sunlight pierces through
He is just ahead of her
He heads to another fork in the road
As she travels in peaceful silence
Comfortable in her aloneness
A certain sadness in the realizing
There must always be these roads
The flowers are getting heavy
some have dropped along the way
Thick beauty of colour surrounds
As the birds have their daily business meeting in the treetops
She accepts what cannot change
She joins her love at long last
Where the sun kisses to greet the road
Hands intermingled and stride in step
There will always be parts of this road she will walk alone
A sacred reality
The flowers she picks up along the way
are the rarest flowers her eyes have ever seen
The only place to collect them is on the lonely path.
Grace Daub December 19, 2021
Copyright © Grace Daub | Year Posted 2021
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