I'm on the road to nowhere 'tis all uphill from here <br />The past is gone forever 'tis the future that I fear <br />And every day that I live is nearer to my end <br />And that I do not fear the thought of dying I never do pretend. <br /> <br />My past is gone forever fading memories of it only left <br />And of any hope of a better future I feel utterly bereft <br />Like a broken winded old horse I quickly seem to tire <br />About me there is nothing that others might admire. <br /> <br />A stranger in the Town I live in and a stranger on my street <br />And everyone to me a stranger yes everyone I meet <br />The bird into the hedgerow it quietly crawls to die <br />He goes to meet the reaper and one day so will I. <br /> <br />Words of praise and condemnation are all the same to me <br />I feel empty of all feelings as empty as can be <br />The rhymes I pen are slipdshod them I could never sell <br />Just one more old poetaster a man of doggerel. <br /> <br />I do not like the egotistical they surely bother me <br />They have the ugly traits of Humankind they lack in humility <br />I see them all around me they seek their own renown <br />They even seek advantage by putting others down. <br /> <br />I'm on the road to nowhere the high hill of me ahead <br />A lowbrow of the have nots of me it can be said <br />That I too had my chances but I left them go by <br />And thinking of the future is something I do not enjoy.<br /><br />Francis Duggan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/i-m-on-the-road-to-nowhere/
