Lost?

Did you ever feel as if

you lost your way,

that somehow there was 

an exit missed,

a path not taken,

a road not traveled?

It is not the road you are on

is bad;

it is just that it feels 

slightly wrong,

a territory that should be

more familiar than it is.

Most, I suspect, make a peace

with the situation, 

an admission that this 

is not be the best of all possible worlds

but rather the best of the available words.

But even in my acceptance

I keep looking for exits

that I have long ago passed

never to return,

or see the tops of hills through which

I sense the road not traveled runs