Poem: Walking Your Life Path

I walk a road that only I can see,
Not paved in stone, but memory.
It shifts and bends with every choice I make,
A living map of every step I take.

Some days it climbs through light and open air,
Where hope feels easy, weightless, almost prayer.
Other days it narrows, rough with doubt,
And I must learn what moving forward’s about.

I meet my past in footprints in the dust,
Soft echoes of the failures and the trust.
They don’t erase the miles behind my heel—
They shape the way the present learns to feel.

No signpost points to where I’m meant to go,
Just inner winds that only I can know.
And though I wander, pause, or lose my way,
The path still forms beneath me every day.

So I walk on—not rushed, not standing still,
But listening for the shape of my own will.
Becoming more with every rise and fall—
A path that’s mine, yet somehow holds it all.

Thank-you for reading.

Brenda Marie