Word For Word Poem by Evelyn Castillo

If our spot reserved in heaven was here, in our hands
If instructions had been given,
Have a manual in your hand
Would we follow to the letter,
Or blow it all away?
Would we keep ourselves from sin,
Or play in filth again..
If it's written word for word
exactly what to do..
Can we really keep ourselves in the path we should?
Would we step away or leave the path?
Would we change and try to go back,
Once regret comes into mind, once our actions have backfired on us
Why can't we just stay on our path,
Diverse into the dirt, and loose our road, ourselves
We loose our future, what we saw ahead
Now you look onto the path that you thought was there,
and discover that you've been going in circles, here and there
You open up your eyes, but they were never closed
The truth is, now your lost, in this darkness you thought home..