O road
Where will you take me?
Today
What lies around the corner?
Will I meet someone new?
A fellow wayfarer
A pilgrim through life
Whose path
Though their own
May quietly run in parallel with mine
At least for a while?
Today
I met such a one
(In fact I met two)
Marked by a willingness
To make a unique and ordinary gift
Of themselves
Of the particular way of seeing
The world
That is their own
Of simple appreciation
For landscape
And nature
And the artefacts of human endeavour
(Even of this human’s endeavour)
Accumulated through time
It is an offering
Of perspective
That expands my own
And so I find myself
Today
Riding a motorbike
And a wave of gratitude
For the road
And for the meeting
Of these unexpected wayfarers