THE CEREMONY OF ‘US’

They had set out to walk

Together on a road

That had caught their eyes.

The road to an unknown land

A land with its unknown ways

That neither had ever seen.

Yet the rituals along the road

Pulled them further still

As they got so far

That they knew not of time

Or place or the space

That between them had once stood.

Time rolled on as they became one

With the ceremony that led to the land.

As the years did pass

The land itself did tell

Its age old tale.

For years they took the tiny steps

Each one at a time...

They never knew when

The land became their own

Where the customs were old

And so were they.

How happy they were

To have finally arrived.

Years gave way to days

As they learnt of other ways

And one day a newer land did call.

Would they answer back

With a common voice?

Could either one linger back

And pretend not to hear?

Will they walk that way

Or choose to forever stay

In that land that felt like home?