Better Days Ahead

I could barely lift my head when I passed a sign that said "Better Days Ahead." But I did, I did lift my head, and I'm glad of it, and it was true, soon the desolate road became flanked by this and that, places to stop and places to eat, familiar faces light, and warmth, and truth be told, I was ready to call it quits until I passed those three words, that affirmation of life on a sign, telling me that light always follows dark, and I'm no wise man, just a traveller, so I won't make up your mind as to what it meant, or even my own, I jgt know that I'm going to keep