250731 The Wild Road

Gazing far, the unknown devours the markers of the wild roadScorching sand grains choke my breathIn the dust, the paths I’ve trodden fade into blur

Alone, I am trapped in the parched cracks of life’s earthEntwined by the heat of day and frost of nightRegrets, roughened by the wear of time

Only in moving forward do I find the momentum of the next momentOnly then do I exist herePerhapsOnly then have I ever existed here