A/N: Written for the Mega Prompts Challenge, word prompt #814 - road, and for the 100 Prompts Challenge, #065 – road.

A Ride on the Road

The road was so different under hooves
than dirt paths made of gravel and soil
and branches falling on the trail –
so smooth, man-made not
and loud, often with cars not too far off

But the rocking seat of a horse
was the same
and that was what mattered.