The Long Road Home

by RC DeWinter

Title

The Long Road Home

Artist

RC DeWinter

Medium

Painting - Digital Oils-paintography

Description

Copyright 2015 RC deWinter ~ All Rights Reserved

The Conscript

The night is clear.
The moon shines.
It does not rain.
These are all good things,
for I am a leaderless army of one
on a forced march to an unknown destination.
I can see far into the future tonight,
and I see nothing but this road,
twisting through valleys, curving round hills,
a panorama demarcated like the Stations of the Cross
with the stopping places left to my own choosing.
My enemies travel with me, invisible, mostly silent,
but I know I can be ambushed at any moment.
When they clamor and brandish their weapons
I have nowhere to hide;
there is no Simon, no Veronica, to provide relief.
I am exhausted with the effort of being my own captain,
a conscript unfitted for the role.
If only there were a signal, a light, a way station
with a map of what's awaiting,
but there is no point in wasting thought
on the elusive conditional.
Perhaps this is a good time
to lay down this useless field pack, to bivouac,
to seek the shelter of the dark unknown.
~ copyright 2015 RC deWinter

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