Friday, August 08, 2025

North-South-East-West

Go west, young one, to

Seek your fortune

In lands of opportunity.

There was a time when this was true,

And many joined the jamboree

As shifting borders grew the realm

To manifest its destiny.

 

But the sun lives in the east

To greet the day,

To wake the beast

So all may shed the cloak of darkness

To earn their place

And share the feast.

 

Travel north into the tundra,

To the land of frozen waste where

Life is hard and death is harder

And directions can’t be traced,

Where souls of hearty constitution

Choose a life to be embraced.

 

In the life of southern comfort

Where the seasons change in kind,

Time to savor every season

As the calendars unwind.

No directions, no decisions,

Only rest and peace of mind.


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