Walk the Road Before You Poem, by HChristian74, at My poetic side

By: Hunter Christian

Walk the road before you

Bask before your shadow

Stretched onto Carolina asphalt

Toward the horizon fate beckons

Going, going, gone – the boy morphed into a man awash in the

lightscape of the wayward dawn

Take pride in your masculine gait

In the stride each step taken sends,

your body into the future with certitude

Westward bound your calling rings louder

Further, farther, farthest – where manhood longed for boyhood

whistled in a yesteryear song

Rest well within God's heath and heather

If the inkwell swallows the pen and feather too,

scribe upon the ledger of your mind's eye

Revel in nature's bedchamber beneath a twilit Sugar Maple canopy

Sleep, sleepier, slept – lie on fallow ground where native born folk

once longingly wept

Find sanctuary amongst prickly sweetbriar that nestle wild rose

Steer clear of sapling whose branches slice the sweet southern

air hard like malice aforethought

The very whipping rod that you lost into the wake,

of a speedboat's tempest as present faded to past amidst the

scent of jasmine and white magnolias.

Smile at the passersby who race to the holiday crab shack across

the lake's clear water to catch dinner

For grandfather taught you to catch a fish with pride from the

patchwork dock from where you stand

And, grandfather was a fisherman

Now, you are a fisherman too.

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