Starting Over

It is always like this:

a path in the woods,

a clearing, the view

of a mountain peak,

the wash of waves on

a sheltered shore. Blue

reflected on rock, sky,

water. Starting over

isn't like that.

Expectation

is.

The path to the

future blazes a red,

orange clay on a

steady incline of

challenge. The path

is never rocky, nor

shrouded in dense

foliage. It is in

blind obedience to

this mythic place,

that we carry on.




© Gayle M. Petty


la corniche de monaco
by Claude Monet, 1884



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