The Traveled Road

The long road,
  the hard road,
   jolting holes,
The one taken,
   by three souls
    on their way
to Bethlehem.

A longer road,
  though shorter,
   hard as death,
The one taken
  by the child,
   grown a man
to Golgotha.

The quickest road,
  most glorious,
   on day three,
The one taken,
  by the Risen One,
   on His way
to whence He came.