Roads

Here is a poem from my soon to be released book, “Journey.”

Roads

Islam, Santeria, Hinduism
Christianity, Humanism
Wicca, Buddhism, Shinto,
Agnosticism, Atheism,
Judaism, Taoism, Sikhism,
Skepticism, Shamanism
Baha'i

I have no interest
in judging the roads
others follow
We all see through
different sets of eyes
and walk with
different feet
to each man
an individual path

Still, all roads lead
to the same high mountain
Even if that mountain
is a parking lot in Chicago
or a flat in Riyadh,
Mexico City, Moscow
or Beijing

All rivers lead
to the same great sea
Even if the river you follow
is across the world
from the shore I walk on

We all breath sweet blue air
of the same Earth
Walk under one vast night sky
that touches our souls with
equal tenderness for all

Tomorrow, tomorrow
you and I, my friend
will wake
to greet the same day
Time flows quietly, silently
a soft fabric woven unique
to each of us our own portion
here very quickly, there very slow
Ten thousand solitary footsteps
ten thousand singular sights
ten thousand feelings
for which there are no words

Yet with every morning sunrise
we all meet the same daylight
given freely of the
same brilliant, bright sun

Our creativeness
makes each of us unique
Our common humanity
makes us all brothers and sisters
of the same fold

Love, wit and creativity, you see
are magic---
At once making each of us
a separate melody
and all parts
of the same grand song

Dewey Dirks