The Taken Roads

Some walks you have to take alone:

The one where you,
in a devil's pact,
walked decades
towards undulations
of passionate forms,
each rise and fall
a promised reaching.

That ,which steep,
draws, hesitant , back
the hinder foot still firmer;
where cornered innocence
stares, transfixed,
in cross-hairs of
an unforgiving moment.

And on paths where you,
oftimes ,would hear,
the crackle of melting snows,
and, in the yonder,
a rhythmic cadence
of surrendering anklets
homing in........

Some walks you have to take alone.