Finding Home

Humanity begins with a cry.

A child born.

A child grows,

learns, becomes insightful,

and curious.

Humanity as a whole,

have rules to live by,

but life has no rulebook,

nothing to explain the do’s and don’ts.

As a child grows to adulthood,

only two roads are favored.

One good, one not so good.

Both create change.

One road gives prosperity,

love of family,

love of a soulmate,

children to be blessed,

friendships to be cherished.

The not so good road leads to despair,

agony, self-pity, and loathing,

suffering, loneliness,

and forever lost.

Choices humanity make,

make all the difference in your future.

Where your long road home is right in front of you,

and how hard choices have to be made.

This road will be walked more than once,

for many reasons,

but know you at least have choices,

decisions that will alter your life.

This road will be filled with ruts,

cracks, dips, and bends,

all of which will make you stumble,

to make you trip and fall,

and you will fall,

and you will fail.

It is part of humanity’s destiny.

The decisions you make will be simple.

Sit where you fall and do nothing.

Go back where you started

and do the same old thing,

which again equals nothing.

Lastly, get up, dust yourself off,

keep moving, don’t give up,

especially on yourself.

It is a long road to home,

but home is worth the effort,

knowing with each step taken,

you were never really alone.

All those who love you,

and those whom you love,

have been with you from the beginning.

They have suffered with and for you,

and they wait at the end,

as you find your home.

When you finally arrive,

after countless times fallen,

after every temptation has grabbed at you,

that has screamed out your name to turn away;

know too, through it all,

your Creator has walked alongside of you.

Knowing this,

home has never looked better.

Once you walk through those doors,

where love awaits.