Now come to the crossroads of this our chance

Now come to the crossroads of this our chance
For ere we wait a moments glance
Fear the fires of romance
Should dance our dreams
To distant shores

Yet calm before
The tempest turns
Our wildest ambition
To this perdition

Hast come condition
Beside ourselves
For fear to fly away

The roads of risk
The fever brisk
That bubbles
Within

On where to begin
One way a sin
The other a scourge
Of tribulation

Where might lead
A declaration
Of temporary
Trojans or trecherous
Trials in time may
Triumph

The plow that picks
Through deepest rocks
And sediment

Ere tempted by the
Soothing sand of shore
That comfort and calm
A time

Yet this tremoring treasure
May be a momentry pleasure  
For the winds will come
And prove the sum
To be undone

Where bedrock seemed
A thankless work
Is perseverant pain
Did time to gain

For patience proved its worth
While plummeting the earth
Grew steady in time
To find its toil
Not vain

For testing proves
The substance of things
For faith is found
Deep in the ground

Where only hope
May carry a heart
That's weary of work

Yet in time
This treasure may find
A pearl more priceless
Than all the sands
Of the sea

To at last
Behold this
Glorious mystery

So wisdom
Doth guide
The unsure heart
And grant its deep
Longing

Belonging at last
Fairwell to things past
Now onward the way
At last

These crossroads have proved
A turning point
A signpost to guide

All others who wander
And hope there to find
The way of truth
That in time may
It prove the substance
Beyond all reckoning

-Joshua Lee Foist