Before the trip

Why view success as improbable?
Would you have expected today
Earlier with less hindsight?
Even time's scope ever narrowing
Should quicken your pace to the aperture.

So you stock the day with games
from tests of skill and strategy
to surprise of chance.
Play against yourself or untold others
to measure how ability changes with circumstance.

Your beginning and end define you,
first impressions and final goodbyes.
a full rainbow over the beach