On That Street Poem by Dorsey Baker

If you take time
Just to
Think about it
Life is a very
Dead end street

Everybody has to
Walk down that street
Nobody gets directed to
Another one!

You cannot just
Pass it by
Go off in another direction

You are going where
Everybody is going
Down that street
All your friends
All your family
And everybody else!
And nobody is coming back

That street is mortality!
And it's a street so full of darkness!
You will find
Youth and energy on that street
Old age on that street
And death close behind