Thomas Harrison Poet Free verse

The Road

I travelled back down the road
on which we spent hours together,
incalculable time twisting our fates
like the vine covered walls we’d pass.

I travelled back down the road
with signs pointed toward your home
one way, and mine the other. Straight lines
and green lights sailing us through crossings.
No sunburnt ambers yet. No midway checkpoints.

I've travelled back down that road,
only years later now. The wheat still grows
in the countryside, the laybys still house dust.
That carpark where I solved the mystery of
the flashing dashboard was empty again.

I travelled back down that road,
driving into a past I loved as the present,
never thinking it a counterfeit future.
A fork in the road was drawn on your map only.

I travel back now, down this road, to a friend
who stayed as you left, who consoled as you
hid. Who helped reroute a direction 
abandoned, for a different course unplanned. 

I will travel along this road to the friend 
who made all those journeys worth it.

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