What is the road less travelled?
As I wake this new morning
the way stretches out ahead
familiar and well trodden,
without expected crossings.

For I have forged this path,
beaten back the briars and
cut away the impeding branches,
built bridges over tumbling streams
and mapped my destination.

Yet, as I wake this morning,
little things are different
and faint tracks lead away
into the undergrowth
that hedges in my mind.

A soft cry calls to me wordless
from the fringes of my heart,
and tempts me to step aside,
to recognize there is another way
on the road less travelled.

An unfamiliar road, unpaved,
through surprise connections made,
helping hands given, judgements withheld,
travelled with an open heart and hand
into an unmapped and magical world.

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