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Feb 2015
That one road
So far yet so close.

As I travel down this long road
Thoughts come traveling through my mind
Good Thoughts Bad Thoughts
Are clogging my mind.

I cannot think straight
But yet I continue to walk this one road
Not even knowing where I am going.

But as I walk down this road I can hear sounds of the wind
I can hear the waterfalls from down the stream
I can hear the true sound of nature itself.

And as I can hear these sound coming from all around me
I realize that nature has a voice
A calm and beautiful voice
A voice of soothing and relaxing tone I feel as if I’m floating.

But then I hear another voice and this one is not soothing
It is not relaxing
I then open my eyes to see a pair of hunters shooting at the animals
Cursing terrible words when they miss a shot.





They then spot me standing there in the middle of this long road
They stare at me with smiles on their face
But in my mind they should not be smiling nor should they be happy
They have disturbed the peace of nature
They have severed the beautiful sounds of the wind and waterfalls.

As I just watch in horror as the hunters start back shooting
I fall to my knees and ball out in a trail of tears
For they have ruined this magnificent moment in my life
That one moment when I was truly one with nature.

But as I wipe my eyes I feel a sense of regret
I then whispered to myself
That I shouldn’t have traveled this one road
That I shouldn’t have been one with nature
That I just should have just went the other way.

That is my thought of that one road
And all that I have left to say.
Written by
Rod Watson  texarkana
(texarkana)   
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