Let Mine Footprints be all but Lost by Katrenia Grace Busch

Let not mine feet stay idle,  

Nor my footprints fade away  

But walk tall and remain able  

To harness the path, it paves  

Let not my footprints disappear  

Nor ever be mislead  

From any journey endured 

From the travel they have tread  

Let mine foot lead the other  

Not taken by the wind  

Nor remain a drifter  

Time and time again  

Let mine footprints remain  

Upon any place they have gone  

That the travel home be the same  

Not forgotten or ever lost  

If by chance I start to stumble,  

Or a path I may have crossed  

Be one that starts to rattle  

Let mine footprints be all but lost  

If by chance I start to rush and hurry  

And the winds change to being tossed  

Let mine tongue bear this prophecy  

That mine footprints be all but forgotten or lost 

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Katrenia Grace Busch is a freelance journalist whose work has appeared in NPR, CBS, as well as local newspapers. Her award-winning poem titled, “Mystery and Wind” took 2nd place in the 2022 League for Innovative Creative Writing contest and made poem of the week for the Poet Heroic.  She continues to serve as a poetry editor for The Bookends Review and is on the editorial board for the American Psychological Association’s Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research and Practice. She is a federal grant reviewer for the U.S. Department of Justice. Her work can be found in Red Penguin Books, Bloom Magazine, The Trouvaille Review, October Hill, Literature Today amongst others.  She can be found on Facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/share/15fooLK5EE/?mibextid=wwXIfr