Rejoice in the Now

            ...I rejoice having to construct

           something upon which to rejoice

                  —T.S.Elliot

remember those crossroads

remember how you wondered 

which way to go and fretted

about your choice

remember how you started

and stopped and asked

yourself so many questions

you sometimes walked backwards

to where the road forked— 

with too much passed time

those crossroads close,

hidden beneath dense undergrowth

 an open path isn’t visible—

this is the gift earned over time

or the burden