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………On The Road….On The Road…..On The Road…….On The Road………On The Road…………….

“Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?” Paul Gauguin

By Gregory Gilbert GumbsPublished 2 years ago 3 min read

On The Road

Coming from saying my very last goodbye to a dying, very good friend.

On The Road

Coming from somewhere and quickly going to somewhere else

On The Road

Carefully, watching for the afternoon traffic while I cross the road, on green

On The Road

Coming from somewhere I have already forgotten about

On The Road

Going somewhere I can no longer recall

On The Road

Blinded by the unrelenting thick raindrops, falling all around me, drowning the place

On The Road

Going by car from New York City all the way to LA with a few friends

On The Road

Travelling alone by car from LA all the way to New York City

On The Road

Walking past the endless enraged traffic jam going nowhere, anytime soon

On The Road

Coming from somewhere very special and going to nowhere in particular

On The Road

Constantly, irritatingly, stumping my feet, on the many worn-out patches within it

On The Road

Looking at the young jogger breezily sprinting past me, as if I do not exist

On The Road

Passing by the workers busily digging up, a broken pipe, in the middle of it

On The Road

A violent fight breaks out between various angry men standing on the sidewalk

On The Road

Walking with only the surrounding dark brown trees, to keep my company

On The Road

Holding hands with my latest girlfriend on our way to an interesting play

On The Road

As, the hearse and two accompanying cars, quietly pass by me, no one cares

On The Road

Just coming back from having a very good time with my latest girlfriend

On The Road

As, an angry feminist demonstration, stops traffic, and demands full attention

On The Road

A happy young family with their new born baby safely strapped in the backseat

On The Road

The screaming ambulance brightly lights up the night in the fading colors of red

On The Road

Surrounded, in winter by all of the trees, stripped bare, of their various clothing

On The Road

On a mercilessly and a nearly paralyzing hot summer day, here in Silver Spring

On The Road

Driven to the very steep and quite dangerous edges of it by the constant traffic

On The Road

Driving around and around with my young son, in Los Angeles, strapped in the back seat, going nowhere really while desperately trying to get him to go to sleep, he looks at me and he smiles.

On The Road

In the middle of an endless traffic jam, with the various horns of the many different cars, vans, busses and trucks, surrounding all of us, intensely blazing in a deadening heat and in a deafening fury.

……….On The Road…………..On The Road………….On The Road…….On The Road……..On The Road

On The Road

In the middle of an endless traffic jam, with the various horns of the many different cars, vans, busses and trucks, surrounding all of us, intensely blazing in a deadening heat and in a deafening fury.

……….On The Road…………..On The Road………….On The Road…….On The Road……..On The Road

On The Road

In the middle of an endless traffic jam, with the various horns of the many different cars, vans, busses and trucks, surrounding all of us, intensely blazing in a deadening heat and in a deafening fury.

……….On The Road…………..On The Road………….On The Road…….On The Road……..On The

©Gregory Gilbert Gumbs

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About the Creator

Gregory Gilbert Gumbs

Gregory Gilbert Gumbs is a lawyer, criminologist, screenwriter, widely-published poet all over the world, essayist and a Ph.D. political scientist.

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