Detours
Detours
(Photo by Mike Hall) National Road winds through the hills of West Virginia.
Detours
If the road to success is always under construction,
then my life has been a constant detour from the expressway.
I’ve slowed down a little for the others in my way as I
watched the new overpasses being put together.
My truck, filled with my belongings, has felt the changes in
the layers of pavement, the new over the old, on the frontage roads.
As I made turns I believed are right, I found out later that
perhaps they were not appropriate; however, a decision was made.
At times I relied on a few tourist guides. Unfilled, I left
places feeling disappointed. The books lied.
It is always easier to look back, to see the different places I
would have missed if I would have known my directions.
I have no regrets, and I have hope for the future,
for life is the journey.