Mark Scrivener Poetry Blog No 41 Down the Road

DOWN THE ROAD

This was written as a song lyric. The road is a venerable (or clichéd -depending on your viewpoint)

metaphor for life's journey. The lyric works in a common way for songs- with the introductory verse and the development verses similar in form and melody, then there is a "bridge" (here in italics) with a different melody and then a concluding verse that returns to the original melody.

DOWN THE ROAD

Down the road we travel on

We'll see rain and we'll see sun;

We'll find loss and we'll find gain,

We'll feel joy and we'll feel pain.

Down the road we travel on

Sometimes you trip, sometimes you're stung

By icy winds blown from beyond

And the clouds conceal the sun.

Down the road we travel on

Sometimes you stroll on in the sun-

And all the world just seems to sing

And you're in love with everything.

And beyond that last horizon,

Where the golden sun is fleeing,

Where the only thing you carry

Is your being and your seeing,

Will we find it all had reason

Will we find it can we know?

Sometimes my

Heart's silence

Tells me so.

But at times I wonder...

When at dusk I feel night's shadow-

But it's the same for everyone

O, down the road we travel on.

Down the Road  (video of song)