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Two Parallel Roads Meet on the Pathless Path

by Ashok Sharda


Destined to follow their separate paths
Two parallel roads
Meet on a path, pathless

Truth cannot have a path
Pursuing a prescribed course
Nor can love confine to a definite track
They need to rise, proceed and grow
In the timelessness

The roads are burdened
Clamorous traffic distracting
Moving helter-skelter, arriving nowhere
Indifferent but prone to accidents
That eventuate every moment

Keeping the crowd in good humor
Ignoring the pit holes
Undoing the obstacles
That barricade the way
Bound by their resolve
They forge ahead
Illuminated in the light of love
On this unknown path, pathless

06/27/2005

Posted on 06/27/2005
Copyright © 2024 Ashok Sharda

Member Comments on this Poem
Posted by Maureen Glaude on 06/27/05 at 06:19 PM

amazing and encouraging. A theme I've looked at often in life. Glad you wrote on it.

Posted by Rula Shin on 06/27/05 at 09:15 PM

Here I say more by saying less, to date my shortest comment on any of yours. That "Two Parallel Roads" have met is nothing less than a miracle of 'fated' coincidences. This is utterly beautiful Ashok, more beautiful than these nine little letters could possibly hope to communicate...

Posted by Philip F De Pinto on 06/28/05 at 12:56 PM

souls have always sought to find their souls, and as truth is as yet seeking itself, each will find itself when each ceases to look. there are no paths and if there were they would not contend we trod them.

Posted by Morgan D Hafele on 06/28/05 at 02:08 PM

"unknown path, pathless" bringd it all together perfectly for me. simply amazing. thank you for sharing.

Posted by Charles E Minshall on 06/29/05 at 01:34 AM

The path of love has no parallel Ashok. Excellent...Charlie

Posted by Michelle Angelini on 06/29/05 at 08:38 AM

Mathematical principles state that 2 parallels never meet, but thankfully, math doesn't define the course of love. What I see in your poem is the attitude that love will succeed, no matter what obstacles block the way.
~Chelle~

Posted by Graeme Fielden on 06/29/05 at 08:46 AM

Inspirational Ashok. It's true that love can break even the most stringent barriers of space and time...it's a glimpse into the omniscient eternal: the mind of God...

Posted by Max Bouillet on 07/01/05 at 03:13 PM

"Indifferent but prone to accidents" this line means so much to me. The road implies motion --constant motion and connectivity. This verse leads through us and away from us and carries the wisdom of humanity. Thank you for sharing.

Posted by Quentin S Clingerman on 07/02/05 at 01:47 AM

Use of contradiction quite effective. (Truth and Love I think are two ways of following the same path. Though subjective in function or individuality they are rooted in the objectivity of God. Thus the Word (Truth) came and lived among us as Love (God) made flesh.)

Posted by Glenn Currier on 07/04/05 at 10:38 PM

How well you articulate the journeys of loves. Just about the time you think you see the path it disappears or converges with uhnappy consequences... or not... sometimes the merge is glorious, then when you want to map another such convergence, the path becomes pathless again. Thanks for this, Ashok.

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