Choices

Sunday at the village crossroad is
circumscribed as a shared social covenant
of obligation, fervour and favour. Congregants
seated in the church pews come the morning
manifest their faith in witness to tradition
and the sanctity of appearances silencing
critics. That adherence to habit and virtue
trades place by afternoon with the
comfortable acknowledgements as
casual recognition in the nearby pub
the social scene moving from one venue
to the other for the town stalwarts. Yet
others still choose to bypass either habit
by their own clear Sunday voice opting
to indulge their singular faith by immersing
in nature's precincts, roaming the nearby
mountain trails, succumbing to the allure
of the forest interiors, their pristine lakes
and mountain streams, there giving homage
and recognition to another creator altogether.