The Two Roads

Ambition or love’s sick dreamscape

Are two divergent paths

Which slope and slide and fall away

Before my hoping eyes,

Sometimes to save the travellers

But other times to damn.

When one becomes too treacherous

The other appears safe

And then when that path falls to doom

The other smiles afresh

And whispers that it is the way

To peace and happiness.

Both wind through the hollows and peaks,

Both into the night

And when one promises to save

It tempts only for now

Not for those days of future turns

Or the fo...