Traveler, There is No Road

Every day, we move further off the beaten path.  Algorithms are written, adapted, and updated in days; roles and shifts and entire hospital units are fluid. We make the road as we go. The Spanish poet Antonio Machado put this so beautifully when he wrote the poem "Traveler, There is No Road." 

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Traveler, There is No Road

    by Antonio Machado

Traveler, your footprints

are the only road, nothing else.

Traveler, there is no road;

you make your own path as you walk.

As you walk, you make your own road,

and when you look back

you see the path

you will never travel again.

Traveler, there is no road;

only a ship's wake on the sea.

Para los hispanohablantes, aqui está en su lengua original:

Caminante, No Hay Camino

    por Antonio Machado

Caminante, son tus huellasel

camino y nada más;

Caminante, no hay camino,

se hace camino al andar.

Al andar se hace el camino,

y al volver la vista atrásse

ve la senda

que nuncase ha de volver a pisar.

Caminante, no hay caminosino

estelas en la mar.