Barriers

And when the barriers don't give way with a gentle push, we should consider it a clue that we are off course. (Each Day a New Beginning, Aug. 13)

I've never much liked
the program motto,
"Easy does it." Simplistic,
not too realistic, just silly.

Aw, but barriers. Lovable.
Simple barriers, clear, defined.
What pride to conquer them,
what progress to delineate
their extent, calculate a course
to circumvent them, pass them.

Should barriers be simple
meaning flimsy, insubstantial?
Is that really the test? If easy does it
pushing past a barrier means
the path is God's, not mine,
and he's running the traps
ahead of me... How easy is
that?