Traveler Takes Another Journey

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Traveler is readying herself

to make another journey.

Her kit bag of memories

is stuffed beyond reason.

It nourishes her well,

but weighs more heavily

on her shoulders

with every passing season.

Her feet are moving forward

but her head keeps looking back.

There is knowledge from those times

that she still lacks.

She wants to find the spot

where the trail ahead

grew so much shorter

than the long way she had come.

The time when hopes and dreams,

songs left unsung,

stopped circling 'round,

slid into the past,

and Presence

became her only

standing ground.

The closer she gets

to taking leave of this world,

the more beautifully it shines.

How will she ever

close her eyes on it
one last time?

And those perfect

puffy clouds

against blue sky?

How they draw

her wondering 

bemused eye,

like a child's painting

of perfection,

each one

more lovely

than the last,

as the seasons

turn and change,
and far too quickly

hasten past.

The trouble with
this journey?
It has
an ultimate  destination,
she an unwilling passenger
who wants to keep on riding
beyond the final station.