TWO PATHS

You have before you two paths

One is rocky and hard
The other is broad and easy to tread
Littered with words that are pleasing
Which road will you choose to travel?
The more tempting one is the broaf road

Filled with all kinds of Temptations
Appearing as Truths

Only in experiencing both paths

Can you know which one leads to Truth

The broad path may call sweetly to you

As it did to me
But only in going down it will you discover

Its ludicrous and obscene deceptions

For on those sweet meats you will fall

And their sweetness will stick in your mouth

Making you unable even to scream at the horror

The rocky path is unattractive
And appears too hard to follow

You balk at the sight of it

Unable to contemplate travelling it

Negotiating the hard rocks and the huge mountains
But where does it lead?
I have experience of both
And the hard path is the one that leads ultimately to Truth

not filled with easy platitudes

that fail to norish the suffering soul

but honesty that recognises the soul’s plight