PLACES

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