Along the road......

 THE ROAD and the END by CARL SANDBURG (1878-1967)
Sandburg describes everything that a traveller would see walking down a road. He is referring  to the Great Depression, at the time, but his experiences along the road give him the determination to keep going in life no matter what.

 I shall foot it down the roadway in the dusk....

 Where shapes of hunger wander and the fugitives of pain go by.

 I shall foot it in the silence of the morning.

 See the night slur into dawn...

 Hear the slow great winds arise  where tall trees flank the way..

 And shoulder toward the sky.

 The broken boulders by the road shall not commemorate my ruin.

 Regret shall be the gravel under my foot.

 I shall watch for slim birds swift of wing

 That go where wind and ranks of thunder drive the processionals of rain.

 The dust of the travelled road

 Shall touch my hands and face....

 2017