I saw a walkway a walkway to sunrise first time it appeared I ignored it
If you pass it by once you might miss the chance I said to my stubborn mind as we passed
But my mind would not listen
through the sands by the shore we kept on the sands that gather and drift into mounded bulwarksΒ Β that try to control and contain the sorrowful crash of life's waves
the sands that fall in a steady stream silently cyphering siphoning days
inside a figure eight made of glass
continued through surf, tides high and tides low undercurrents pulling us down losing our step then righting again till steadied upon solid ground
along concrete highways, back roads and byways grassways and passways through brambles crossed and twisted hopelessly tangled
lost in utter despair
tired after all the rambling and roving my mind stops
seeks the walkway again
finding it brings no relief it leads the other way 'round no longer to sunrise, no longer to dawn but to sunset, evening then darkness instead
I have a picture of a well-worn, but solid pier with a gorgeous sunrise "at the end of it" - I had captioned it "walkway to sunrise' - it looked as if you could just walk right into the sunrise.