Between here and there

Journeying through
moving along
– a glimpse and a view
of people unknown
and countryside new;
no time to dig deeper,
explore, understand
what’s behind that next corner,
around the far bend,
to learn of ‘before’
that man’s ‘yesterday’,
to know that child more,
to hear what they say
or see their ‘hereafter’,
their pain we can't feel:
like a film they pass by us
– it’s pleasant, unreal.
We rest and remember
an interesting scene
until we have travelled
from where we have been
to somewhere we pause
and settle awhile
for leisure or chores,
relating to neighbours
or those on vacations –
step back into life
with its many dimensions.

[IP: poetry or prose around the theme of journeys (good or bad, real or imaginary)]