The Exit

The Exit

The Exit is prominent in all of our life events,

The growth of the Spirit

Is a path to an Exit

That opens a new door.

Like the old saying

About teachers appearing when

The student is ready,

The Exit appears,

Quite simply,

When it’s time for us to leave.

We embrace some exits joyfully,

As life transitions, but

There are individuals who try

To delay their passage through

The Exit,

Staying that extra semester,

Signing that next contract,

Walking past the door.

The Exit appears early,

(Or at least the rest of us may

Believe this to be the case),

For some, hastened by positive

And negative energies.

The prodigy reaches the Exit

Of the school,

Sooner than her classmates.

The soldier finds the Exit,

When the explosive device

Detonates too close.

It’s likely we won’t choose

Which Exit we take from

A life event,

A relationship,

A vacation, or,

The bodies our Spirits occupy.

There are emergency Exits

Available to us, along the path

Spirits will make their way to the

Closest Exit

When troubled, seeing no way

To continue on the path.

Sometimes others spot the Spirit

Heading to the emergency Exit

We do what we think is right,

And pull the spirit back to the path

We believe,

Our clergy believe,

Maybe even our gods believe,

Is proper for them.

In spite of our best intentions,

The Spirit doesn’t listen, finding

Another Exit,

Right away.

The Spirit passes through,

Leaving us to ponder

What “went wrong,”

Rather than understanding

The notion that the Spirit needed

To go,

To wait,

To prepare,

For another journey.

©2016 Edward Branley

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