Walk - by Joe Reese

Walk a mile through a city of snow

Where icicles sparkle, but nothing glows.

The more that you bundle, the colder you grow.

Don’t let the shivers of coldness show.

Walk a mile through a forest at night

Where darkness and fear may claim your sight

And the candle you burnt no longer gives light.

Don’t let what you cannot see give you fright.

Walk a mile through a cavern of fire

Where the walls try to ask you, then call you a liar:

“To what end do you aspire?”

…to stand up and fight, with a chin ever higher.

To walk ten more miles through a cavern of fire,

To walk ten more miles through a forest at night,

To walk ten more miles through a city of snow.