"Tunnel Vision"

All roads lead to paradise, but the difficulty

of my journey depends solely on me.

If I prefer to take a detour - a side trip, here and there,

I risk the interference of earthly Gods.

Erratic patterns of light appear, tiny flickers of light

that trickle down through the trees.

They come to me as "Notions"...

whimsical charms to entice me off the beaten path.

I succumb to some,

but decline a number far more,

yet each trip taken

bears me something

in a lesson learned.

Some - I grasped

right from the beginning,

others eluded me for centuries,

but ultimately,

I found that the goal was invariably the same -

to reach the final destination...

that bright, white, light

at the

end of the road..…