Following footsteps

Sometimes it is too easy

To forget

You are not the first

Every step you take

Every path you walk

Every pain and injury you suffer

Others have been

If not in your shoes

On the same journey

Through fear and famine

War and despair

Revolution and repression

Tyrants are not new

Neither is disease.

It helps sometimes

To notice the footprints

Of those who went before you

Some in boots

And some in sandals

Barefoot at times

Crawling at others

Follow their trail

As far as it goes

Then make your own path

To help guide those who will

Come after you. .