Street Signs

The road to life is narrow.

The road to death is wide.

They both have many turn offs where you can run and hide.

The street names you encounter may tempt you off your path.

No one else around from whom directions you can ask.

The snakes are in the grass there.

It's never really cut.

Your entire journey could end rather abrupt.

You will feel it in your stomach;

your built in gps.

It's time to make my way back not to contemplate and rest.

The longer that you stay there,

the more that you will miss.

Don't wake up 40 years from now still in the wilderness.

Keep your eyes on God not to the left or to the right.

That is how you navigate this gift that we call "life".

PATRICIA A. MANIACI