Sunday, 15 March 2015

Ghost Path.

I hear the landscape whispering
Telling tales of ancient footfall,
Of paths like veins being woven
Into its being, into its primordial fabric.
And the landscape breathes in
The new mapping because
It is part of its myth.
It embraces the new ways
Through its bones
And holds its secrets
Like eggs in a nest.
Yet over time
Many are destined
To become rumour
Distant memory
To be seen only
By moon and star.
White pebbles are lost in moss,
Cairns elusive in lichen,
Pray flags ragged and torn
In a haunting wind.
The paths of human toil
Become lost to the landscape;
History is fragmented,
Devoured by forgetfulness,
An ancient mist obscures the way
And soon old ways are destined
To become lost, to become ghost roads.

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