Remnants of the Way

Remnants of the Way                                                                          
 
Once the Way is lost, Lao Tzu taught,
then comes virtue – birthing innumerable sins,
 
the far-reaching and the trivial –
pride, disdain, judgment,
 
envy, division, exclusion . . .
inevitably creating its opposite;   
 
setting up the incessant battle within.
All because we have strayed
 
from the original mandate; abandoned God
as constant Companion, inner arbiter and guide, 
 
creating instead our own world
from the remnants of the Way,
 
striving without wisdom, purity or strength
to live by (and constantly failing) our own rules.
 
O child of God, the Way, the Truth and the Life
is the lost inheritance of each soul.