Experience

this feeling
i can't articulate it precisely
but in my bones
I know it

when I draw together all my experience
all I have seen in this dirty city
all my decades
all the law
it tells me -

the road is long,
the journey is hard,
and the destination will be a barren place
full of fear and reprisal.

And yet it draws me on
something impels me
it is sales actually