PLACES
There are places I have never been
And others where I’ll never now go
But those that I am proud to know
Will always stay as images in my head
Or maybe rather in my heart instead
Closing my eyes as I recall the scene
I have left footprints on many paths
I did not always have to stray too far
Nor study night skies to follow a star
Some roads challenging, even exciting
Others were, and still are, so inviting
Yet travel can be a game of two halves
There’s memories caught in a dragnet
Others just seemed to slip silently away
But there was a time, I just have to say
When one comment made me see red
I’m a tourist, not a traveller, they said
Yet I’ve always bought a fridge magnet
I have ventured over land, even oceans
Both the North and South hemispheres
Many thousand miles over all the years
Yet different cultures have one similarity
I have discovered in the pursuit of clarity
Like me, poor control of their emotions