Paths

And insofar as paths go,
I generally retrace ones that
as a young and inexperienced tracer,
wobbled.

Accustomed to balance through
years of practice and logic,
my steps are straighter but less
joyful.

Is it a slow loss or one traumatic
point at which our eyes begin to
calculate and plan and lose the
moment?

Would our decisions be worse if we
stepped back in time and forced
our limited omniscience of adulthood onto
them?

And if so, should we approach
complex and unsolvable paths with
the naiveté and simplicity of
childhood?

My path has strayed and
only a child’s mind could
make it logical.


-12/27/08