Time and again in the mystery of life
Our travels bring us to a fork in the road
In a very unfamiliar landscape.

Ingrained ethical opinions
Might force the one path
While the other tantalizes with dazzling bounties.

Either choice implies expectation
Of life or of the journey.
Him or me? Truth or motive?

Left, right. Good, bad.
In, out. Up, down.
Here, there. Beautiful, ugly.

Knowledge that we’ll be just as damned
Following the one as the other.
When its necessary to unify our divided mind.

Choice results in consequences
We won’t have the power to alter.
Woe betide us if we get it wrong!

To make an intelligent decision,
Or the Right decision?
To walk or run away?

All it amounts to is the self.
Engage our egos or give happiness.
The startling answer chooses the road.