Turning A Corner

I’d like to drive out,
turn a corner
and there it is
- the open road.

What I don’t want
is to swing optimistically out,
turn that corner
and discover myself
stuck behind a tractor,
a caravan,
a horse-drawn cart

or, worse,
glide round that bend
and find I’m facing
an unavoidable
cave-your-head-in
brick-walled dead-end.

Though it happens.

Has happened.

Will happen.


Dead End Street