One Step Forward

One Step Forward

Walking along the surging creek on a city trail

Groomed for urban walkers

A fence on my left, a demarcation between

private property

And where I stood graffitied with bright blue

Aerosol paint indicated the path forward 

to salvation, revival and redemption

Or stagnation, revisionism and status quo,

“Its not where you come from, it’s where you are going.”

Also caligraphy in bright blue,

Apt to read while trail walking.

Beside that, also in blue caps, “COVID 19”

Followed by the sign for the Greek and mathematical

symbol for pi (not found on my keyboard)

3.14 and never quits,

I paused staring at the prophetic fence

The doomsday fence

Which way forward to infinity and beyond?

Two steps backwards,

Or just where I was going that day.

The complexities of life, on a fence strewn with graffiti

One step forward, I thought.