Let Us Walk

We have a long way to go, likely longer
than my lifetime, or the life of my limbs
to carry me there. So let us walk. Let us
stride in the strength of the sun-charged
meadow and let our feet fall steadily on
the fungal forest floor. Let us march our
legs up, over, and around any mountain
we meet and don the garb to shelter our
skins as we span the desert stretches. It
is a hard road, this one, a tutor, and only
of those students ready to learn to carry
into a new range the joys of journeying.
So let us shoulder the burdens we must
to arrive, at length, at the starting point.