The Middle Path

What do you do when you're on a road

travelling, you know not where?

Do you charge ahead, or just lay back

and pretend not to care?

Can one be good and one be bad?

Is there an "up" without a "down"?

I believe you'll find the answer's

between a smile and a frown.

It's opposing pairs that shape the world

causing the ebb and flow.

It's on the wings of circumstance

that we ride the winds that blow.

At times we may be brilliant,

at times we play the fool.

But I think we walk the middle path

when we live by the golden rule.

Do you think that Allah can be praised

and the living Christ denied?

Fire won't burn your sins away

if to the wheel you're tied.

All is one,

and one is all there needs to be.

Just ask your favourite form of God,

and He will help you see.

~ Jon Bruns ~

(Sanathana Sarathi - Feb. 1993)