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At Every Step
At Every Step
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AT EVERY STEP
Crossroads
arms outstretched
meet me
at every step
leap a hundred directions
I want to explore
their experiences and dreams
all seem real;
I want to go deeper
a restless curiosity within me
I don't know what I'll discover,
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When I return
carrying frightened symbols
or grinning images
metaphors meet me at the threshold
and say, "You have to live
another hundred years.11
Even at home
crossroads at every corner
a hundred directions with outstretched arms,
alleys, lanes, thoroughfares branching;
everyday I encounter
a hundred untravelled experiences
and I think
the writer's predicament
is not having too little
but too much to say,
his anxiety, the choice he must make.
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