> ## Content Index
> Fetch the complete content index at: https://randalljgreene.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further.

# The Journey
- URL: https://randalljgreene.com/the-journey/
- Published: 2026-01-23T12:33:35.000Z
- Updated: 2026-01-23T12:33:34.000Z
- Description: Our fate is not deterministic, and we are not alone – we are wanderers in a community of wanderers, all taking one step at a time, and the best life we can lead is to journey together.
- Author: Randall Greene
- Tags: Poetry

My life isn’t a grand orchestrated adventure  
with a fixed end  
where my role is  
to follow a line marked for me

It’s a step at a time  
in the darkness  
with a pinprick light to see  
and my role is  
to listen and feel along the way  
to those before beside and becoming

## About This Poem

I was shocked to discover a few days ago that this poem wasn't posted on my website. It's one of my favorites that I've ever written, and a couple of lines from it have inspired other lines in other poems... but apparently I've only ever posted it on social media as an "in progress" poem.

I love the brevity and clarity of this poem, but I love even more how the lost meter and lack of punctuation makes it feel disorienting, a reinforcement for the theme of wandering one step at a time. The second stanza concludes by pointing out that we are not alone – we exist alongside a community of wanderers, all taking a step at a time, and the best we can do is journey together.