Life is like watching the road
You can choose to watch the fast things
follow the cars with your eyes
and see them clearly
with the landscape blurry and missed.

Or you can choose to explore the landscape
with your eyes
Appreciating what's here with you.
With the cars blurry, there and gone in a flash,
unclear and soon forgotten
as you take in the details
Of earth and sky.

For me, I would not choose the highway.
I prefer backroads any day.