only foam trails on the sea

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Walker, your footsteps

are the road, and nothing more.

Walker, there is no road,

the road is made by walking.

Walking you make the road,

and turning to look behind

you see the path you never

again will step upon.

Walker, there is no road,

only foam trails on the sea.

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~ Antonio Machado

(Border of a Dream: Selected Poems, translated by Willis Barnstone)

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