The Same Long Trail

Eric M. VogtCopyright 2013

Eric M. Vogt
Copyright 2013

We each traverse the same long trail,
all knights with own coarse coat of mail,
inventing castles with each tale
we’re sure will rise beyond next hill.
Each tread exposes dust as dust,
each labored breath breathed with less lust,
each railing, bridge reveals the rust
that takes down all and breaks the will.
Just look beyond long slope to rise.
You’ll see forever in the skies
and this brief time shall make you wise,
gain courage and stride strong until
all trails shall end as they must end
within same sun’s descent, then bend
to walk, the hand of love in hand
to lift, to lend, same strength instill. 

Eric M. Vogt, Copyright 2013

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  1. kalabalu

     /  February 14, 2013

    Reach the goal, of after life..the path beyond the way to prize, love and faith is geared to make warriors heroes, with no fear.

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  2. soumyav

     /  February 14, 2013

    lovely lines ERic,they speak of the faith and perseverance!

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  3. melodylowes

     /  February 13, 2013

    I like this one, Eric!

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    Eric M. Vogt retired from the U.S. Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Prisons as an educator and law enforcement officer in 2011. He has published the poems "To Home" (Minas Tirith Evening Star, 1985), "An Elven Princess" (Minas Tirith Evening Star, 1986), "Simpleness" (American Poetry Anthology, 1987), "Within a Dream" (Taj Mahal Review, 2008), "The Mountain" (Taj Mahal Review, 2008) and "Last Letter to Wilson's Creek" (The Ozarks Mountaineer, 2012) Eric published a non-fiction work entitled "Terrorists in Prison: The Challenge Facing Corrections" (Inside Homeland Security, 2007). In 2013 he published his first collection of poems entitled LETTERS TO LARA. His second poetry collection, PATHS AND POOLS TO PONDER, soon followed. Also in 2013, Eric published a non-fiction book entitled TERRORISTS WITHIN OUR WALLS The Principles of Correctional Counterterrorism (all books above available on amazon.com and its affiliates across the world as well as barnesandnoble.com). He resides in Missouri with his two Pembroke Welsh Corgis, Sissy Longstreet and Jack the Crackerjack Welshman.

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