What Do I Need

What Do I Need

As I walk on in my journey

I realize my pack is so very heavy

My food and water supply so minimal

For extra I will be on the prowl

What am I carrying

What was i thinking

How is this going to aid me

Suddenly realizing I will be sorry

I’m layered enough so let’s ditch this

And that and that but not that it’s for catching fish

So much junk I brought on this trip

Not needed nope save for padding in a slip

But then if I do slip that’s on me fully

For not heeding directions correctly

I thought I would need a winter coat

Just like I thought I would a suit but not the kind to swim in a moat

And all the footwear oh dear

One good pair of shoes just one pair

What is that I spy ahead

That opening’s barely big enough for my head

To get through that I’ll need to lose everything

What a waste and then I’ll be foraging

Maybe I should just turn around now

Not sure if I make through and worse how

Hmm back to the town I just passed

Or onward ugh I feel I’ve been had

Cold nights hot days

And the view everywhere a haze

But that man he said out there through the was the true treasure

A place of constant everlasting love and pleasure

He said once there you’ll not need a thing

But it just seems so hard lots of time don’t know is what I’m thinking

I peer into the fading light

Appears nothing great in my sight

And I really spent a lot on this gear

And I’ll have basically nothing if I leave it all here

What did the angelic man mean

To get in just pray and stay clean

I’ve got all this stuff that I need

Okay some is wanted hey but some is for feed

Decisions decisions I’d better make one soon

Behind me I think I spied the rising moon

And with it a nasty storm brewing

Don’t really want to be here when it’s pouring

I know the old guy said through the crag there is true shelter

But can trust that  don’t know if I will ever

Through the gate I need nothing but trust

A voice inside go you must you must

What do you need

Amen

9/7/25