For Real Toads: musical challenge, Patti Smith

Marian's musical challenge today at Imaginary Garden with Real Toads features a longtime multi-media artist and Rock'n'Roll Hall of Fame member named Patti Smith: songwriter, singer, musician, poet, journalist, actor, author, activist, who is as young as springtime and as old as I am.
Patti won the National Book Award for her autobiography Just Kids, and our Marian is going to see and hear her, perhaps meet her, next week, but first she introduced Patti to the writers at Real Toads as an inspiration for our poetic imaginations.
I was so sure I'd be inspired by Patti's song Wing, because I love the phrase "a wing on heaven blue" but instead the second song Marian posted turned out to be the one to inspire me to write this little poem:

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Wikipedia photo
Smith performing with the
Patti Smith Group, in Germany, 1978

almost every road

is just a road—

but the one

that’s paved in gold

is the one

paved with love

and friendship

paved with warmth

companionship

and laughter

paved with care

for others—

all those

who care

and share

and help

and heal

and walk

with us

are gold