I walk alone now <br />unlike as in the days of long ago <br />when there was company and the crowd <br />and there was clamor and noise… <br />but smiling time dispersed all things and beings; <br />time forked the paths <br />as many as veins in a leaf <br />and made each man and woman and child <br />shake hands or hug and wave goodbyes; <br />and so I walk alone now <br />in solitary ways <br /> <br />I let all things go <br />the past and pain and sorrows <br />and the yearnings and mind's hustle and bustle <br />And so one is on the path that opens at one's feet <br />And the earth and the trees <br />and the air and sky and the water and clouds <br />keep the still heart company <br />in one's long walk to one's own shed <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />(companion picture: Landscape with a Solitary Traveler by Yosa Buson)<br /><br />Raj Arumugam<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-solitary-traveler/
