Walking Before the King

A man walking along the road
Sees a most beautiful garden
And hears a voice calling him.
It is the King strolling in the garden.

Excited,
The man leaps over the fence
And into the garden.
In his excitement and haste
He does not notice
That he is walking ahead of the King
While the King is strolling
Close behind him.

And so the man walks on,
Thanking the King and praising him
With all his heart
In preparation for
Greeting the King.
And still, he takes no notice
That the King is right beside him.

Suddenly, he turns around
And sees the King beside him.
Naturally, he is very glad
And he begins to walk behind the King,
Thanking and praising him with all his might,
For the King is ahead of him and he is behind.

And so they stroll right up to the entrance.
The man walks out the door,
Returning to his starting point,
And the King remains in the garden
And locks the gate.

When the man realizes
They have parted,
And that the King is no longer with him,
He begins to seek the opening of the garden
through which he had left,
So that the King will be ahead of him.

But there is no such gate.
There is only the way
He entered the first time,
When he was ahead of the King.
And the King was behind him,
Undetected.