AT THE CROSS-ROADS

Shortly on any road. You get to cross-roads.
And you know you cannot travel both
where you want to go remains the inner guide,
 
So it is with life. As a child you may care less.
But as young birds leave their mother's nests,
One day it too becomes your turn to go,
 
To take care of yourself, to decide, to live with resulting consequences.

Then you realize there is need to know
To know where you want to go, what you want.

Many ways presents themselves, many things too.
You need food, clothing, shelter, education for you,
You need a life partner, you need some beliefs and company,
You need school and fees for your children.

You decide - you can work for it, you can steal you can stay there hopeless,
You can sell your body, sell drugs, get into corruption and such
Many ways, many things, with many consequences.

These consequences -Some easily resolved, some permanent others eternal,
Some destroys you other grounds you and brings endless shame.

It's that day, the day you get to crossroads - and we all do
That you will know we all need to know before
The things we want, the way to go, the how to go.

God's manual for life is there all the time, and glad we are that,
The Bible is that manual, in it, for you and for me,
Is the things we want, the way to go, the how to go.

Outside that manual, many, many ways and things we want
And whatever 'happily thereafter' outside that manual, is a lie.