If you look back far enough,
you can see many trails.
Haze in the distance clears
when you see the red dress
you wore when you were five,
the old wooden sidewalks
where you learned
to ride a rusty tricycle,
the dusty roads of town
where you played
Kick the Can in the summer,
kids with bruised knees
and play clothes,
the smell of wheat fields
on an cool evening. Those trails
that took you past the ice rink
to the school, the highway that
took you into the city to be an adult.
Rocks and bumps in those trails have
taken you into your strengths today.
“Gaze steadfastly at things which, though
far away, are yet present to the mind.”
~ Parmenides, philosopher
(Born 502 BC)
