ROAD TO NOWHERE

Phil Roberts 1957 (Melbourne)



On the road to nowhere
Only losers ever travel,
Those whom hope abandoned
Whose lives and loves unravel.

An endless Macadam goes on
Right to the distant horizon,
Welcoming the broken-hearted
Whose reasons to live have gone.

A lovelorn place for losers
Where nothing worthwhile grows,
Where no-one ever tends the soil
And only the Reaper ever sows.

Beside the never-ending road
Are rivers of sand so very red,
And in the distant forestland
Is nothing but those long dead.

Ghost towns dot the deserts
Where human life once thrived,
But aeons on from there
Nothing decent has survived.

On the road to nowhere
Angels surely fear to tread,
And wise men try to escape
Hearts and minds full of dread.

Tarantulas and Spinifex
Move across the burning red sand,
And nothing else can live here
Within this sun-blasted land.

On the road to loneliness
Only the heart-broken walk,
And in the very dead of night
Loathsome faceless beings stalk.

THE END
© Copyright 2022 Philip Roberts
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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On the road to nowhere Only losers ever travel, Those whom hope abandoned Whose lives and loves unravel.

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Written on December 09, 2021

Submitted by PHIL_ROBERTS on February 21, 2022

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Scheme Abcb xxxx xdxd xece fgag Aexe xhxh xixi xfx
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 1,009
Words 194
Stanzas 9
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 3

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