I Have Wandered

I have wandered through death

so many times

it's like my back yard

I have wandered through sleaze

so many times

 it's like the mud at the end of the garden

I have wandered through crises

so many times

it feels like I create them

though I don't

I have wandered where I shouldn't have wandered

way too often

and not wandered where I ought to have wandered

I have not trod the true, narrow path

but somehow have stumbled parallel enough to it

to still be on the right course.