As long as I️ can remember, 

I’ve found myself forever walking down

The same withered cobblestone road

Stretched infinitely beyond 

Without the promise of an end. 

Now, as the leaves are trampled by my feet

And the frigid chill has pierced its way

Through springtime’s warm embrace 

As the barren branches of the great oak

Tumble towards the white blanketed earth

As the thought of one more step

Makes my weary legs grow feeble

Now, for the first time, I turn my head behind me

And now for the first time I can clearly see. 

This straight line path  

I have trudged eternally down. 

Shadowed in my resolution

Yet it is resolutely enduring

Cleaving thick green carpeting

In its tenebrous wake. 

It’s dawn obscured the in dead of night

Yet I see clearly the path i’ve taken. 

My centurial odyssey 

While born of the glittering sun,

Led through the most dismal of nights. 

And now, with its termination near

He reaches out

And again I burn.