Decision

Three roads,
a wood,
nexus.
The son
stands on now,
behind him,
the past,
the way
to the future
blocked
by his father.
To move
forward
he must take
his father's life.
His question,
the riddle
he must
solve,
that will
forever
shape him -
what to do
with that life,
once taken?
 - mce