make it count...

simply dressed man

 with an honest smile, 

on the road, for a journey

called lifetime...

a long-haul, on the road...

every highway with that honest smile,

every mountain with the same drive...

writing his journal, riding his truck...

child in me asked him, "why do we seek to travel far and wide, 

when every breath is a journey, we take towards the destination?"

very pragmatically, he answered "some stay some vanish...

we fight, we feign, we contemplate 

but, we keep breathing unaware of 

being wiped away, one figment at a time...

day in day out, its a journey,

make that count"

shiny quizzical eyes

of a familiar stranger

of a traveller, a story teller

learning lessons from the roads, 

rivers and air 

to keep walking, keep moving and

 keep flowing, and when the end comes, 
be rest assured that you

made it count!