Slava Olchevski - Road Sign

I see white letters
on a green background –
A road sign!
Warns me I’m very
close to my exit.
I know, I’ll be fine

I travelled this road
Since I was a child
Day after day
First – to school, then to college
To a wedding chapel,
To work and to play

But this time I feel
Something is different
Something has changed
The sign on the road
With its new signage
Reads something strange

I have always thought
That the roads are open
And free for all
Yet the sign proclaims
That this very exit
Is the last before toll.

Slava Olchevski

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