if only

how long is a journey - who can say?
it is as long as the many steps
it takes to arrive at the destination,
be it ten or tens of thousands.
yet all that can be remembered
are usually the first step and the last,
and all the innumerable steps inbetween
merged and faded into a mystery.



(drafted on 4^th August 2007 at 1:13 AM and, for reasons forgotten, unpublished)