Scenic Routes
The children’s teary-eyed complaints
Are we lost?
you meet head on
No, we’re together.
By now I’ve learned that every journey
includes its share of scenic routes.
Picturesque detours through parking lots,
dead-end alleys.
Sometimes we actually leave the map,
drive across grass,
bumping our way back to where we were.
You drag us on illegal
hikes through construction sites,
daring acts of trespass,
choose sudden, unmarked roads
that turn into footpaths, end
at a stranger’s decrepit barn, populated
by bats instead of cows.
Wading into rapid streams,
you roll rocks up waterfalls-
snapshots made without a camera.
Adventure is often a mistaken turn
where blinding views leap up
to hit us right between the eyes.
The unexpected joy of finding
what we never knew we’d missed.
Are we lost?
No, we’re on the scenic route.
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