We Continued To Walk Poem by Emmanuel George Cefai

We
Continued
To
Walk
To
Walk
To
Walk
The
Long
Straight
Walk
We
Continued
And
The
Hard
Face
Of
The
Hard
Road
Never
Failed
No
Not
Once
Not
Even
Once
And
The
Sun
Burned
On
Us
Cruelly
Though
It
Was not
Yet
Noon.
And
Still
We
Walked
And
Walked
By
Time
Our
Soles
Had
Become
Sore
And
Aching
Started
Yet
We
Trudged
On
And
On
We walked and walked.
For
That
Was
Life
The
Invisible
Chain
That
Was
On
Us
And
The
Irresistible
The
Sword
On
Our
Heads
Dangling
Continually
Dangling
All
The
Time
More
Cutting
Than
The
Guillotine
More
Dangerous
Than
The
Sword
Of Damocles
Yet
We
Continued
Trudging
Fear
In
Our
Hearts
Sun
Shining
On
Our
Faces.
Parched
Throats
And
Masks
Of
Suffering.
Yet
Trudging
Trudging
Trudging
For
That
Be
Life.
Dawn, noon, afternoon
Sunset dusk night
Are
All
Irrelevant
We
Just
Trudge
On
And
On
And
On
Continue
Trudging.
Verses
Kept
Occasionally flowing
Flowing
Drop
By
Drop
Drop
After
Drop
Cumulus
And
Gathering.
Verses
Flowing
Verses
Kept
Flowing
And
The
Mask
Of
Peril
Began
Its
Dangerous dancing.
Dawn
Noon
dusk
Night
Cycle
Relatively
Irrelevant.
Trudging
Trudging
Trudging
We
Suffer
Yet
We
Joy
We
Be
Still
Breathing
Just
Enough
To
Be
Yet
Trudging
Trudging
Trudging