I first wrote Taithchwant as I was settling into my new life teaching English in South Korea. I had just started my Great Adventure, and couldn’t wait for the surprises along the road ahead. Little did I know that I’d be here, almost 6 years later, going back through my hundreds of posts and editing them for my updated blog.
All these memories I’ve made… It really has been a wild ride. And yet, I’m not finished. I read this poem and I still feel the tug towards places unknown, to things I’ve never experienced. Reading it, I find myself dreaming again of the Open Road Before Me.
Taithchwant
I walk the road less walked upon
On mountains, valleys gaze
Furthest from my haven, home
Till at world’s end I traipse
I left my fam’ly, friends, my love
Upon the western shore
And find my shoes caked strangely with
The dust from foreign floors
I left my land, yet shall return
To sleep down in the loam
For now I walk, the road shall call
Me ever, softly home
Fate, come what may, I shan’t regret
My selfish, wand’ring ways
I’ve embraced life, and lived it well
Lived fully all my days
- Hiking to Refugio Frey and Beyond - January 20, 2020
- Christmas Letter 2019 - December 18, 2019
- My Walk Out of the Woods - June 30, 2019
Amen brotha