I begin a new journey.
I travel a new road.

    Smell the air,
        washed by the night rains.
    Feel the morning sun
        warming our hoping skin.
    Taste the raspberries,
        sweet and popping,
        growing outside the back door–
        were they there yesterday?!

I would be honored
to walk this path with
you.

Text and
image © 2013 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved.