My Portion

One day as I was walking....
On the straight and narrow highway
I looked
n not too far ahead
I saw a tempting byway
I saw that games were being played


Looked like a county fair
So I went in to join them
And they offered me a chair
I watched awhile
and then began....
to walk upon the byway
It seemed a place quite similar...o.o

To the narrow highway
I saw the birds
the shrubs and trees...
And smelled a smell
so sweet ;D

But as I walked....
I failed to see.....
The net beneath my feet
I heard a crackling sound
and
I Was caught so suddenly...
That I could not begin to guess
What happened then to me???

I struggled from inside the net
And suddenly the scene...
was changed...
and
began to hear a groaning
and some screams...

The birds became dark....
ghastly things...
The trees were
black.... bent
The smell became
a dreadful stench
The path had a sharp descent
I cried out in that dreadful place

Then heard the Master say
In loving tones...
so sweet....so low

"Did you leave the narrow way?"
"Oh Lord," I cried
"I'm like a bird
Caught in this awful net.
Please help me...
Lord, to free myself.''

The Master said,
"Don't fret."
I'll give you strength
my little one =D
To break the fowler's snare.
"I struggled hard, and soon was free
In answer to my prayer.

Then....
when my wandering soul escaped
from that old fiend's device
The Master said,

"That snare can't hold
A Bird of Paradise."