By Jeff Nydegger
In a timid thought by chance I traced
A faint and fleeting path.
Like a rabbit trail, it seemed too shy
To promise much to any traveler.
And more than once, I lost sight of it
among my gadding thoughts.
But as a nerve would spurn against the body’s foes,
So my senses seemed to meekly guide me there.
And once resigned to hope, I trod that road
Beyond the thoroughfares of strife.