Narrow Road

Notes in harmony struggle but

Climb uneven, mountain footholds.

Chant-like, pitch-perfect expressions,

Overcome. Rooted in routine

 

And firmly grounded petitions,

The professed postulants’ vocals

Burst forth, their members taken out

Of the world to tame sin and sing,

 

Reaching heights and elevations where

Awe, High Power, and Almighty

Are if but only in shadow;

Fear of God is felt less today.

 

Modern men strive, without God’s name.

To their great peril, they reduce the

Irreducible. Put behind

Them, they’re free and liberated,

 

Except from death, which always comes.

The Fearsome Gate, opens from the

Narrow road where few have traveled.

Trembling, only a few will pass.

 

Gary Edward Geraci

 

“Enter by the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many there are who enter that way. How narrow the gate and close the way that leads to life! And few there are who find it.” Matthew 7:13-14