Open Road

The road ahead seems tarnished
As the wheels touches the gravel.
Sometimes I like this kind of drives
Where the road leads me to places
Unknown, places I forbid to reach.
But is it possible that we have
Always let ourselves be on
An concurrent drive as we
Protest that failure can slow
Us down.
What do we seek in life
If we always play it safe
Never to reach that open door.
That old familiar feeling
We always get where we stop
Ourselves from enjoying life.
We fall in despair as life takes
An unprepared turn
As we venture through pain
And heartache pulling us down.
We get to the brim of our adventure.
As we look far beyond the distance.
That long and unwinding grayish tar.
We see a road never ending.
We look at life as its on going,
Recurring each step as the days come.
So does that open road become.
A road that has so many other
Directions, it all depends
On the outcome.
On what we want out of life
And also what we seek to console
Our burden hearts.
I've come to a open road
And I've failed.
I've failed what I thought I knew.
That I can grow with each mistake
And turn it into a lesson.
Sometimes we think to much about
The end of that open road.
But all along its not about
Where we came from,
But where we we'll be
At the end of the day.
Finding hope and holding
On to our love for ourselves.

This is my entry for FWF by Kellie Elmore
Week#50 Thursday Poets Rally 25/08/2011 till 01/09/2011