VOICE ONE—THE CONSCIENCE
You don’t get there sooner
Running faster in that direction,
It only ruins your temper
Your color and complexion.
VOICE TWO—THE EMOTIONS
If you can’t remember
Whether you’ve been here before
I fear you’ll never find
The exit or the door.
VOICE THREE—THE WILL
You grow weary of the game
You grow wary of the claim
Cause all paths look the same,
And no one is to blame.
VOICE FOUR—THE MIND
Did you take the trouble
To think the path through,
Before you even started,
Before you turned blue?
VOICE ONE
Are you going round in circles,
Retracing your selections,
Has it occurred to you,
To ask for directions?
VOICE TWO
Every turn you take,
Every move you make,
Every path you forsake,
Could be a mistake.
VOICE THREE
Some are not phased
By a complex maze,
It doesn’t take days,
Or leave you amazed.
Seeing the end from the beginning,
Shows you which way to go,
If only you’d had the foresight,
To start off quite slow.
VOICE TWO
And now it’s getting dark,
And all the noises gone,
Should I just stop and rest,
Should I be moving on?
VOICE FIVE
‘My Word is a lamp unto your feet,
And a light unto your path’
BW3 July 17 2007
5 comments:
The punchline came out of nowhere and smacked me upside the head. Great job, Ben!
wow!!!! love it :)
hope it's the foreword of a new book!
Great parallelism with the offset at the end!
It is amazing how loud voice two sometimes can get! And then voice four steps in and screams to voice two to "Shut-up," which is scary, because voice four should be less, not more, emotional than voice two.
Without voice five, many of us would be basketcases.
You are so right Jason, and its hard to get all four voices to shut up at once in order to listen to voice five.
Blessings,
BW3
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