The Destined Path

By Ruhudeen Ali

6/9/12

I wandered around this land feeling lost, confused

not knowing how to find my path

searching for a lost road, I assumed,

I might make a new track

Many travel on their paths with confidence

not looking back or around for signs

relying completely on self-competence

guided by their unfaltering minds

It's no wonder then, that I am the one lost

For in truth, I no longer have that confidence

I once loved to hear myself talk

but now I see behind the veil of pretense

Blinded, I fell off my road

left to wander in the wilderness 

my mind began to mold

and my situation looked hopeless

'Til one day I realized the Lord's Call

I understood why I was so confused

He was reaching out to me all along

this bemusement was just a ruse

Now I know I cannot wander aimlessly

I must follow the map given to me

To come back to the Lord's path

I shall sacrifice ego happily

So fellow traveler, I say to you

do you still think you follow your own way?

the path is really only one, though it seems as two

our paths converge with His anyway, remember Judgment Day.