Truckin' Through Time

A week before I turned eighteen,
my parents bid me fond adieu,
put me on that big silver bird
and sent me out into the world.

I was off to Alabama,
a thousand miles as the crow flies,
on the next leg of my journey
to a higher education.

The red dirt roads meandering
through green Georgia pines resembled
varicose veins sprawling across
some alien panorama.

Driving across the flat landscape
blanketed with white cotton fields,
I felt like I had been ejected
to a different universe.

A far cry from the home I left
nestled among the Berkshire Hills
back in western Massachusetts.
This damn Yankee had been displaced!

The voyage went on to Hong Kong,
Singapore and Barcelona,
as experiences informed
through so many teaching moments.

Today, I travel back through time
and draw upon those lessons learned,
both good times as well as the bad,
to guide my track to the future.

        

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