LEADERS - not followers

Wednesday, July 23, 2008

TOP Foreign Lands

NEW HORIZONS

Road signs; no help
Their hieroglyph markings
Display a language you can’t understand

Traffic signals
Familiar warning
A universal colour-code command

Through the red light
To a head-on collision
In your haste to reach the point of no return

Through the green light
A twisting path to freedom
A tortured course to everything you yearn

But if you keep your eyes on the road
If you keep your hands on the wheel
Just a matter of time before you learn

Read the signs in the eyes of your mind
Keep a safe distance
And don’t get too close to arrogance

Pride will cause distraction
Each and every action
Requires a choice, a decision, a reaction

But if you make the wrong one, you’ll get nowhere

That’s not a place you want to go
You just escaped the living hell of nowhere

10 comments:

  1. I like the way you showed these hazards as a kind of road journey.

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  2. Hi Stan, I'm still trying to escape but I think I know what you mean..

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  3. very clever take on the prompt.. and i love the way you created the scenario... very well done...

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  4. Tanks to:
    anthonynorth; The journey to understanding is like a journey to a foreign land, and full of unforseen hazards.
    Andy; At least you're trying - I hope you're getting somewhere.
    paisley; Everything seems foreign, until you venture out and try something new.

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  5. Great poem. Reading street signs in another language can be difficult but trying to learn something new can seem to be equally a hard task to master.

    I wrote a silly limerick about an almost romantic honeymoon cruise.

    -Bev

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  6. Thanks bevies-place; Life is about learning and many of it's lessons are hard, but it's a journey I relish.

    I read your limerick; it was fun.
    Wanted to comment, but your comments box is something else I'll have to master.

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  7. Ah, the journey! Great take on the prompt...

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  8. Thanks tumblewords; The journey continues, and each day brings new discoveries.

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  9. i agree with everyone, great take on the prompt! i liked how you used the universality of traffic lights as a metaphor for our personal journey

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  10. Thanks odessa; sometimes we need to stop and think about our next move.

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