This journey you’re on – 
the one with all the bumps 
and ditches (that feel like craters), 
and tempting side streets 
filled with mysterious characters – 
remember this – 
it is not your own. 
Each time 
you curse the struggle 
or 
choose the shady companions, 
you 
drag 
down 
and 
along 
the ones who love you. 
Don’t you both deserve 
a better Way than that?