Wednesday, July 29, 2026

Rural Roads

Although I’m a city person,

There’s a place I get to stay 

In a lovely rural setting

When I want to get away.


And at times, we’ll head out somewhere

Where a highway doesn’t go,

So we’ll drive along for miles,

Seeing nothing that I know.


There’ll be lots of trees and pastures 

And occasionally farms,

All that emptiness of people

Setting off, in me, alarms.


Yes, the vistas all are pretty

And it’s natural and serene,

Yet I picture something going wrong

With no one on the scene.


I know urban driving’s awful -

Traffic makes your nerves explode,

But you never will get stranded,

Unlike on a rural road.

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