I Did Travel

I did travel Many miles From the North To the very South Through blistering desert heat Staying Just ahead The flooding rains Dodging Roo’s And Camels Those little Thorny devils All so Familiar to me Then I come to a border And pass into a different Universe Of Covid And passes Face masks for all Social upheaval Social isolation I feel and I feel For those Stranded behind Locked doors I dodge and weave The stumbling blocks And road blocks That the universe Seems to be dropping As if there’s no stopping Because of the dreaded Covid coughing I make it To the boat That will sail me to lands end Where my journey will end Am locked in a cabin To lay my head Where the rocking And rolling Sends me yet again To another Universe Of . . . No that’s a poem of its own. I wake to A new life Of same old Same old Or will it be From the sublime To the ridiculous Who knows I will soon find out But Old mate Once said “Nothing ventured Nothing gained Nothing Lost Nothing Changed” “Qui onques rien N’enprist riens N’achieva”