The highest point

You will come to a place in the road
where you can see nothing higher
no hill above you, ahead or behind
stretching off to each horizon:
the highest point this road can offer.
And it will not be your goal: you must
keep moving; not always higher up,
but always further on. Upwards is
a mystery, a majesty, a glory—but it ends.
Its limit is constrained by the Earth.
So then: you must carry on, ever on,
for you will never find a road
with no horizons.

January 2020