Take Control

-Take Control-
by
Keaton Foster



Down that road
Take control
Steer to the left
Drift to the right
Slam on the brakes
Put the pedal to the metal
No one cares
And if they did
Such concerns matter none
This is about living
Same as it always been
Same as it always will be
Living through risk
Two sides of the same coin
The battle of every war
Fight for what is yours
Live as if you have
Not a second more
Refuse what you are certain
Is abundantly clear
Steer in your own direction
Go where you have never had
The guts to go
There will always be a ditch
On either side of the road
To the very depths
Of darkness they go
Creatures and beings
Live down there
In the muck and mire
Of all human existence
But not you
You still have a chance
A path made quite clear
Such clarity comes at a price
A payment to be rendered
Upon your mortal soul
The path is straight
There are no curves
No obstacles
Just endless miles of minutia
No change of scenery
Just more and more of the ordinary
An ordinary that makes people like me
Want to put a bullet in their heads
But such a poem of ridiculous servitude
Has nothing to do with others
This alone is about you
And the path that you are on
The direction of your cause
Where you are truly going
And what is out there
Beyond your vision
Take control
A pseudo oxymoron
One you are accustom to
To the other you are immune
Taking is your namesake
Control is your failsafe
You believe that God has laid the path
And that living is the distance
Without question you move along
Seeing more than the nothing shown
Is not part of what you require
Blind allegiance to an ideal
Fuels your motor
You are confident that you
Will never run out of gas
And that you will never crash
Straight you will go
No curves, unless you alone
Decide to grab the wheel
Unless you alone decide to
Pull it hard in a direction
Other than the one that God intends
Only then will you take control
Only then will you live
Only then will you know…




Take Control
Written by Keaton Foster Copyright © 2012.