The Long And Lonely Road

-The Long And Lonely Road-
by Keaton Foster



Winding
Binding
The timing
Off tilter
This world
Off kilter
All of this
A mess
All of it
A slaughter
Inside it burns
Outside it yearns
Hear these words
Poetic brilliance
Disguised as ignorance
Lambasted by fools
Far greater than I
Yet I’ll continue
Browbeating
The legions of no ones
Because that is
What I do best
The long
And lonely road
Leads far away
Heading off
To another place
To a point of change
In a world
Of terrible pain
These words
Fuel for thought
These ideas
Passages of time
Meant to be timeless
Livable entities
Specular anomalies
Designed to supersede
All that I am
All that I could be
I appear as nothing
And they alone
Are every something
They will stand for me
And those like me
Those who have been
To the edge of hell
Those who have stared
Into the swirling blackness
Of all that people
Are truly capable of
The long
And lonely road
Goes where people like me
Need to finally end up
It’s our passage
And our right
We’ve earned
All that it means
To walk alone
Until we get
To where it is
We must go
Sure we are tired
At a point of exhaustion
Certainly this all seems
Damn near impossible
Our feet bleed sore
Our minds scream
Never again
No more
But our hearts
Beat out the call
Telling us to find our way
Assuring us
That we are close
Almost home
The long
And lonely road
Leads to a place
That we must go
Leads to a realm
Of certainty known
A place where we
Can belong
And where we
Can remain safe…


The Long And Lonely Road
Written by Keaton Foster Copyright © 2015.