Lights

Driving through this barrage of lights.

I see flashes and streams alike.

I see them moving fast.

I see myself lost in them.

Forgotten choices, I have overcome.

A nomination, for what I haven’t begun.

These lights pass me by, going slow.

I signal and pass, to move forward, at last.

Going South.

Lights, going faster in the opposite direction.

Never seen a second time.

I continue South, looking behind.

Lights that shown, telling me I am right,

disappeared when I left them.

I pull over rethinking my choices.

Do I move onward or backward?

Do I continue going South?

Do I turn around?

I look up at what is in front of me.

I see where I am going.

I see, my pointed lights.

I see, pavement faded.

I see the lines to follow.

I look behind me.

I see darkness but not emptiness.

I see, the path taken, no longer lit.

I see, the places that took part of me.

As I see my options.

Either way,

I continue a worn path.