Walking Down the Broken Path

A poem about valuing the world, and not getting lost in timeliness

Walking down the broken path

Amidst the colored trees.

I watch as others pass me by

Not with cares at ease.

 

Walking down the broken path

While far too deep in haste

I favor meeting journey’s end

My time is not to waste.

 

Time I spend with little cares

Relaxing safe and warm

Time I value only when

I sit at home alone

 

Walking toward the end I seek

With just my path, alone

I do not stop to look around

Complacent how I drone

 

The world is but a blur to me

The path I simply trace

It’s sad how much I do not see

My eyes locked on my place.

 

The place I meet

My journey’s end

Where I can rest

And spirits mend.

 

Too much haste

Just walking there

The broken path

Too many cares.

 

Why is it true

That I must go,

I mustn’t stop,

I mustn’t slow,

The time

Is short

But yet

I miss

That

 

Time

 

Means naught

When we have haste

Time is passed

Just seen as waste

 

Time knows not the ones that view

The world outside their path

Time sees us with place to be

Not seeing what we hath

 

The time too short for us to be

Another place is what we see

Our vision set upon our place

Our journey lost amongst our haste

 

Time is precious, time is short

We must not hurry, flying forth

Yet time so light, it blows away

And so we fail to seize the day

 

We miss our place upon this earth

Not living now but then

Our place in on the broken path

With life beginning hence

 

The broken path is end enough

An end I only see

When I just stop and look around

Time unknown to me

 

Stop some time along the road.

Marvel in the beauty there.

Look around at your abode.

See your journey plain and fair.

 

Reviews

[Theresa]

A wondeful piece. I like the verse:
"We miss our place upon this earth
Not living now but then
Our place in on the broken path
With life beginning hence"
Most of us waste time usually without a second thought when we should be out taking full advantage of our time. Something that I can totally relate to. This was a great read thanks for sharing.

[holyspirit1]

good poem well written