Weekend

For us, the right time for fun
& good times begins today:
we're out on the open road
once more, taking in life with a passion
which can never be surpassed,
brushed over, swept under the rug.
If there is a time & a place
to make new memories
& write new chapters in our life stories,
now is that time,
the location is anywhere we choose.


So we get into the car, not knowing
where we're going or how long we'll be out
on the road: All we know is
that we're traveling,
searching for some of life's greater joys.
Rolling the windows down, one smells
the aroma of burning firewood looming
over the air like a hefty cloud of incense,
one sees from afar the towering buildings
which are downtown,
one sees the farms & fields drifting by
as in a dream, the lure of the interstate
too much to overcome...
Whatever it is we're looking for,
chances are we're going to find it
out here, out on the open road.

The weekend has arrived:
It's now time to gather up what belongings
we were planning to bring along
for the ride & depart from this place;
there is life to be lived
& new memories to be created
once we reach our chosen destination.
This is not goodbye.
We're only now starting to say hello
as we're preparing to go see the world.