The race to Rome

All roads lead to Rome...
The sweat and the blood pours along
the rattled path pitted and oft scarred...
spattered with the agony of a thousand lives
humanity trudged upon night and day...

"do not hesitate, but pass along
or u too shall fall;
Every man for himself"

...loneliness gnaws
and so does hunger
my soul yearns to rebel
only to be subdued by the cold logic:
all roads lead to Rome...