Tuesday, January 2, 2024

Each Birthday is a Step in the Right Direction - poem

 

Lawrence Hall, HSG

Mhall46184@aol.com

 

Each Birthday is a Step in the Right Direction

 

The Road goes ever on and on,

Down from the door where it began

 

-Tolkien

 

A birthday is not the beginning of something new

But rather part of a continuing story

From its Prologue and its Chapter One

Through the dark leaves of Mirkwood and beyond

 

Yes, there be dragons, more than ever, it seems

But sometimes still we glimpse magic by moonlight

Or take an ale or two at a wayside inn

Then sticks and packs again, our faces set West

 

If this were my last hour, I still could say

With Tollers and Jack: the Road goes ever on

 

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